A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.

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.

The main factors that sponsor the abuse of time include procrastination and excuses. Procrastination makes you to shift a task that you can do now into the unseen future

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward but he who has hope for it is a fool.

I don't write for a particular audience.

You can have the coolest job in the world, but it only seems cool until you get sick of it.

Sometimes, all you need to do is pull back a little to protect your heart, not turn your back entirely.

Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.

There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.