When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen

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.

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.

Religion has always been an irrelevant aspect if my life. The people here are either pissed of atheists, or religious freaks waiting for God to save them.

I still love to eat, and my diet isn't perfect.

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.

That is the theme of the Million Mom March: 'I don't need a brain - I've got a womb'.

I don't talk soft, that's that other guy.

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.

The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life.

Wayne's cool. I ran into him at my hangout back home, and he's just cool. I actually have this beat that I want him on, but I was too scared to get it to Clancy to get to them, but Wayne's cool.