I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

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.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.

I was commissioned to write some romantic fiction, and I really liked doing those, and they were very instructive in terms of building characters and plots. But it never felt right for me.

Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.

So that's where it differs for me now, it's the creativity, versus, the raunchiness from back in the days. So I just try to be more creative nowadays.

But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.

There is only going to be one Kate Moss. Kate is an icon.

There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.