Success makes you less intimidated by things.

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.

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.

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

I can be a gentleman off and on. When the urge hits me. - Tran

Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I’m not ashamed of my illness. I’ve been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too.

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

You are the universe - that's why it shines!

Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

I find age such a foreign concept. I have to be reminded. I still have the extraordinary feeling of adventure, striking out into unknown fields.

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.

Love comes quietly... but you know when it is there because suddenly... you are not alone anymore... and there is no sadness in you.

And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing.