Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

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.

In order to understand our life mission and answer the question “Where am I going?” we need to grow and shape our personality

I'm not looking for a happy ending. I'm looking for a new beginning.

Nothing worth doing is ever easy.

Simplicity is the key to beauty. Clarity is the key to perfection.

Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.

You're not famous unless people's mothers know who you are. Everybody else, you think you're famous, but you're just hot, and heat cools off.

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

Through music time is tamed, although music never forgets to remind us of time's faceless mission.

There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.