I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

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.

It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.

you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany.

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

The scariest movie I have ever seen, and my favorite horror film is, 'The Exorcist.' It is a must-see horror/thriller classic. I watch it every couple of years.

The best clients in the world are the people who cause you to struggle.

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

Politicians are simply reflections of the public.