I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

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.

One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.

Everything I publish is for my readers.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

You need to look to make a cohesive calendar that makes sense and helps elongate the careers of your players as opposed to shorten them inadvertently.

I believe truly that Canada is a living history and we're going through some of the most important time in this country's short 150 years.

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories.