If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.

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.

You don't need magic to be invisible in a town like this. Being poor works just the same.

Because Of You, My Heart Exploded Into Stars

I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.

Whosoever plants a tree, Winks at immortality.

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

Fortunately, like all good things, Christmas Day does come to an end.

On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.

It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.

My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.