Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

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.

Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.

I do have insecurities. I don't know if you can tell. I'm not brimming with confidence.

History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.

When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

Our rule is the works of mercy... It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.

When you leave your home, think that you have numerous opponents waiting for you (it is your behavior that invites trouble from them).

That would have been a great ticket, Reagan and Ford - an actor and a stuntman.

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.

I have a deep affinity for New Orleans - its like a second home to me - they treat me like I'm their own.