I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

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.

Proper education is the key for us to posses strong civic values, refined knowledge, and career readiness.

I know you’re afraid of me. I can smell your fear, and I actually kind of like it.

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans.

It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.

We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.