People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

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.

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

In ethics all individual humans are rightly seen, not only as beings to whom things matter, but as beings who accordingly merit concern and solicitude.

I am still fully committed to male-female equality.

Never bet with anyone you meet on the first tee who has a deep suntan, a 1-iron in his bag, and squinty eyes.

When people call me a role model it puts the fear of god into me, because I feel like I'm destined to fail.

I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am.

We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are.

We have forgotten that those skills on the more positive side of human nature have to be taught, have to be modeled, have to be practiced.

Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.