Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent signal or noise

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

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.

The world wasn't going to go away. Ever.

People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist more fiercely within themselves.

Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.

There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.

Beware of spitting against the wind!

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.

It's a simple question of supply and demand. But all of us are grossly overpaid. I think it's a ridiculous dispute.

I'm a physical learner. I learn from writing drafts, not reading them.

One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.