Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.

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.

The more we try to stop others from falling, the more we hurt ourselves.

Living things are creations, masterpieces. All Life Matters!

One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most.

They say you should not suffer through the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment take it off and let it drop.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

Whenever I investigate a smell, I find that the answer is always bad. It's never: 'What is that? *sniff* muffins!'

Learn to love yourself and all that other stuff will not matter

I bought a new book, '100 new ways to make love'. I ended up in traction - it was a misprint.

Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.