Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

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

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

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

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.

I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.

There are no places in this world where the chit can be concentrated. Without the chit attaining steady-state

The ways of men and women are such a puzzle. And I could barely decipher my own feelings, let along anyone else's.

When telling a story about how wasted you were last night, stop.

I'm lonely, but everyone is lonely So at least I know I'm not alone.

I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way.

I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on

To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.

I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn't have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it?

I always love depth. I like looking through windows, through frames, through spaces into other spaces.