If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.

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.

Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city.""There are no limits in war, " Volger said, still staring out the window.

The big trinity of publishing: mystery, thrillers and romance. If you can combine all three, then it’s a winner’s trifecta and you’ll be rich beyond your dreams.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.

It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.

You and I are going to change the world.

The press really is not doing its job of holding their [the candidates'] feet to the fire. ... The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?

It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.

We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe