I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.

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.

The children are the future, so, let's tell them about tomorrow's hope rather than yesterday's despair.

Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.ü

But now he felt as if the whole world were tipping backwards over his head, and this, he couldn’t help feeling, was a very worrying thing for the world to do.

For all we know, at this very moment, somewhere far beyond all those distant stars, Benny Russell is dreaming of us.

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

Happiness and a positive attitude are gifts you can pass along. So get out there and start giving.

"Couch surfing" refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.

Entrepreneurs need to be positive. Always. Entrepreneurs need to be brave, often. And lastly, entrepreneurs need to be obsessed.

Life and love would go on. Even though it would happen without me, the idea brought me joy.