Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

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.

What you think of your self is more important than what others think of you.

Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing.

I've been a public person for most of my life. It has advantages and disadvantages. I can't take my kids to Disneyland. On the other hand, I can get a table at a restaurant or tickets to a play.

Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all.