It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.

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.

For every writer, there is a challenge of time that is only magnified in the solitude of the work.

The monkeys, she explained, were considered reincarnated politicians, which made Rue laugh and the stick entirely understandable.

We don't have all the answers ... as we get older, our bodies need repair.

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.

Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.

I feel I must live alone, alone, alone - with artists only to touch the door. Every artist cuts off his ear and nails it on the outside of the door for the others to shout into.

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.