In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

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.

There is no lateness in life.

YOUR STRONGEST COMPETITORS ARE YOUR PAST PERFORMANCES.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

I know a lot about Jewish comedians.

I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I've done it a million times before.

No one has earned the right to do less than their best.

I'd like to thank the BBC for allowing me to work here. And I'd like to thank the wife and kids for making it necessary.

Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

In the light of one choice, we will sing with one voice.