All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.

More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.

PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things with it.

Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.

We dont have better algorithms, we just have more data

One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub.

Using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table.

The people who hate SICP are the ones who just want to know how to drive their car on the highway, just like everyone else.

When I was in school, working as a team was called cheating.

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don’t know how to approach the problem, you’re not going to get a solution.

I must not imagine what is ‘not’ as a means of escaping what ‘is’. Rather, I must understand what ‘is’ and imagine how I can make it what it is ‘not’.

Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.

I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.

When you're really considering all the qualities of food, purity is right there at the top of the list. I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated.

Iraq was a war of choice, like Vietnam.

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.

You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what theyre saying, its quite hard to find cracks.

The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.

See the bowtie? I wear it and I don't care. That's why it's cool.

Any job is a job. If you have to be doing something, then you're probably not enjoying it.