If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

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.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

The passion I feel for you is more than you’re prepared for. - Eric

The state it cannot too often be repeated does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody.

He is not only idle who does nothing but he is idle who might be better employed.

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives.

People are conditioned to just you know, like, you know we're like little birdies going to the bird feeder you know, or the little cows going to the salt lick. We just like what we've seen before.

What is more gentle than a wind is summer?

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.