Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.

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.

Very rarely do the best things in life fall into our laps

If I never shed a tear or wondered what happened to someone I actually loved, what makes you believe I'd think twice about you, someone I never even cared for?

If you stop struggling then you stop life.

I generally think debates within a party should not be treated as a scandal. They should be treated as a sign of strength, to be honest.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

The young break rules for fun. The old for profit.

You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough.

Children, behold the Chimpanzee: He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone.

You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs.

The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the direct result of all the politics that came into Iraq with the occupation.