First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

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.

Learn the rules before you break them.

there is no problems, only solutions".

You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old.

Inside of every good person there is also something very wild.

Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

There's a thrill in going someplace you aren't supposed to go. The place should come down.

Our conscious minds are rapidly overwhelmed with the few tasks that they attempt to manage. That's why our unconscious minds have evolved to handle so much of our thinking.

Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.