I know it's cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the mission of what these great journalistic brands are about.

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.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.

We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before.

Life is too fragile and valuable to be spent doing something you hate.

Why only gaze at the stars? Catch one!

Prayer is not a device for getting our wills done through heaven, but a desire that God's will may be done on earth through us.

Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

[When I photograph] I project what I'm not. What I would like to be.

The Cleveland Cavaliers just offered me a full-time job and a house! A house! A house!

When a child has no hope, a nation has no future.