List of Bill James Quotes

Crime Cases Tend To Be Fascinating Until You Figure Out What Happened.

All Societies Have These Cases. There Are Many, Many Crime Cases That Remain Famous From The Times Of The Romans. The Bible Is Full Of Crime Stories. You Can Almost Flip To A Page. Joseph Being Sold Into Slavery By His Brothers Is A Crime Story. The Bible Is Full Of Crime Stories.

It's Easy For People To Grow Up In Our Society Believing That Certain Lifestyles Are Risk Free When They Certainly Are Not.

I Like To Feel That I Understand Little Things About Sports.

It Is A Very Long And Very Difficult Road From A Fact To A Conclusion. But It Is A Million Times Longer From A Theory To A Fact.

Computers, Like Automobiles And Airplanes, Do Only What People Tell Them To Do.

Because Crime Stories Reveal An Aspect Of Our Personality That Everybody Has, But Which We Normally Keep Very Deeply Hidden. We Like To Talk About The Good Sides Of Ourselves. We Don't Like To Talk About Our Hatreds, Our Distrusts Of One Another, Our Secrets, But Crime Stories Drag Those Things To The Surface And Consequently They Fascinate People And Always Have Throughout All History.

You're Just Too Poor To Get Rich.

I Tried Not To Write About The O.j. Simpson Case Too Much Because So Much Has Already Been Said About It, But There Are A Lot Of Questions Left Worth Asking. However, The Case Is Very Useful To Illustrate Other Points. The Case Is A Common Reference Point Because Everybody Knows The Ins And Outs Of It, More Than Any Other Case In This Generation, So It Becomes Useful To Reference Other Points. In Itself, There Aren't That Many Questions About It That Remain Unanswered.

On The Other Hand, If You Suggest To A Person Who Has Been A Victim Of A Serious Crime That We Take The Issue Too Seriously, They'll Look At You Like You're Crazy. So That's A Really Tough Issue, Whether We're Doing More Harm Than Good By Paying So Much Attention To A Few Cases That Honestly Don't Normally Intersect With Our Lives.

When I Was A Small Kid, I Grew Up In The Newspapers.

We Don't Genuinely Need More Literary Geniuses. One Can Only Read So Many Books In A Lifetime.