Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don't have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically.

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.

I would lose him a thousand lifetimes over if it meant I got the chance to love him a thousand times. And have him love me back.If only for a little while.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.

I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress.

Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder.

Many more schools can be outstanding.

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

Whenever you face obstacles, crises and dilemmas and your confidence is in your associates more than in God- it is a sign your faith is deteriorating.

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.