Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

Success makes you less intimidated by things.

The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Jesus obviously does not answer many questions from you or me. Which is why apologetics is always such a questionable enterprise. Jesus just doesn’t argue.

Most of the people don't see a big success in life, because small successes ignites ego issues in them.

The common denominator is that we have guys who are really hungry to show what they can do.

People in the East Conference are starting to see how good the twins are. They make my job easy. I just go to the net and look for holes and they keep finding me.

You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.

The boss says that games in hand are no good unless you turn them into points. What he's getting at is that games in hand aren't much good unless you turn them into points.

At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.