Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

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.

One eye open. One still in a dream

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.

I just like doing a lot of different things. People need a reason to get their butts out of bed and do something.

When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.

At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.

You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.

I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.

The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.

All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.

Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out.