My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings.

More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.

PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things with it.

Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.

We dont have better algorithms, we just have more data

One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub.

Using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table.

All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.

The people who hate SICP are the ones who just want to know how to drive their car on the highway, just like everyone else.

When I was in school, working as a team was called cheating.

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends.

To flourish in any field of activity you need to gain a deep understanding of it.

I threw [Picasso's] drawing on the floor and in doing so, threw away about £50m.

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?

I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in.

I think my work is very difficult to understand. Sometimes people do and sometimes they don't. I can't do much about that.

A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.

Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.

Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.