I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

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.

Your baby is smarter than you think.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

I was a cute baby. My mom said when I was born they threw away the mold. Some of it grew back.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]

A bargain is a bargain.

If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.

In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME.

In the soil of the quick fix is the seed of a new problem, because our quiet wisdom is unavailable.