Malcolm Gladwell (2007-11-12), Dangerous Minds: Criminal profiling made easy., publisher: The New Yorker, retrieved: 2008-01-01

If you make a great number of predictions, the ones that were wrong will soon be forgotten, and the ones that turn out to be true will make you famous.

— Malcolm Gladwell

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Malcolm Gladwell

About Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Timothy Gladwell (born September 3, 1963) is an English-born Canadian journalist, bestselling author, and speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996.