Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.

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.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

Our desire to grow, to make a place for ourselves… to know we have counted in the lives of others, is healthy and necessary to our existence…

Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.

I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

Too hard for any frog's digestion,To have his froghood call'd in question!

Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values.

The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.

I think the good stories are those where the character decides to break away and do something different.

Did we perfectly know the state of our own condition, and what was most proper for us, we might have reason to conclude our prayers not heard if not answered.