On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

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.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.

Terry Gilliam has spoken scathingly about my preference for physical comfort. I have come to the conclusion that this is very much his problem.

I could not, as my father's daughter, remain indifferent to all that was going on.

I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.

I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.

I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record.

There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.

Eve, we're going to be married in a few days." The jittering started again, big time. "Yeah." "If he keeps looking at you like that, I'm going to have to hurt him.

All I ever learned at my mother's knee was what a bony knee looked like.

Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only takes the trouble.