Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

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.

Fame and fortune await the few with the faith to fall forward despite frustrating failures.

How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding.

A rat is neither good nor evil. It just does what a rat is suppose to do. From Phantom

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

Confession of sin shows us more clearly our need of mercy-and endears God's mercy more to us

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery.