We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

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.

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.

Inspiration is an inner string which must be tuned often in order to play it.

I'm not letting go of you.

I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.

Making films is - or should be - a very personal experience. You shouldn't listen to anybody, other than the people you choose to listen to.

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.

I signed contracts I didn't think were a good idea but people around me said it was the way forward. It saddens me that I'll never own my first album ever, which sucks.

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.

Like I always said, if I'm one of the top players in the game, pay me like I'm one of the top players in the game.