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.

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

Your passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.

The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.

"God" is just a name to refer to something that is beyond all limitations.

The cry for love and communion and for recognition that rises from the hearts of people in need reveals the fountain of love in us and our capacity to give life.

The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.

These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always.

because everybody lies. It's part of living in society .

Jack, you've debauched my sloth.

Never talking to strangers. Saying nasty things about the neighbors.

That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.