The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.

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.

Each of us has his own inner concentration camp... We must deal with, with forgiveness and patience-as full human beings, as we are and what we will become.

I'm not trying to put you down, but even if I did, you'd have nowhere to go.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

At the highest level the first two yards are in your head.

It's not about me, it's about the grandkids. That's what a lot of people don't understand about what Herman is up to.

It's fun wandering around other people's minds.

How can you think about the world without factoring in the unforseen, the fluke event?

Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.