The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

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.

A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all.

When I’ve been anxious, it was because I believed I couldn’t handle whatever came my way and instead tried to stop life from happening.

If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.

My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.

We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.

The main thing I do is to carry myself as best as I can on my pro level.

You can't bomb a people just in case.

Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?

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