If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

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.

Don't be fooled... If they gossip to you, they'll gossip about you.

If you don't keep track of great ideas, you'll stop noticing you have them.

Happiness is already in the future because your heart and mind took you there a million times already. It knew.

He read vividly.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.

When you work on a graphic novel or a film with people you've been together through a lot and you've exposed your secrets and weaker sides to each other.

If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.

Being a teenager is hard.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.