If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.

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.

Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.

Be the great person you were always meant to be.

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.

There are definitely aspects of that kind of stuff. The whole team [of Legends of Tommorow] gets thrown together. They don't really know each other like that. They haven't worked together before.

The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

I wanted to get the guy who works next to me in the office something he really wants, but how do you wrap up a saloon?

At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men

Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars.