New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

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.

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.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Communicate at all times with the Creator.

For, if after fifty you don't live the aspirations of the young, go away. Who needs needs spectacled snails, salivating on the Soma of youth.

Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over the strings are still attached.

Know then thyself presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

I'm very much into vengeance, in the way that if someone attacks you, you have to attack him twice if you want to survive.

I can see why the Russians love Robert Burns, I think that Russians and Koreans have a very similar outlook to Scots.

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.