We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

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.

You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.

Don't spread negativity, that stuff is contagious and ruins us. The good news is, positivity can also be contagious and it lifts us.

Our lives consist of two numbers: date of birth and date of death.

And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to.

You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.

No form, no manifestation of knowledge, is senseless.

Quite generally, international affairs have more than a slight resemblance to the Mafia. The Godfather does not take it lightly when he is crossed, even by a small storekeeper.

Being on 'Batman' allowed me to do something we actors are taught never to do: overact.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Technical know-how of the experts must be transformed into practical do-how of the people.