Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.

New methods always look better than old ones. Neural nets are better than logistic regression, support vector machines are better than neural nets, etc.

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

Confidence is that internal alignment between what you know, what you believe and what you portray.

You must feel it from within. You must want to write the book. You must desire to write the book

Renunciation is the art of removing the barriers between one’s self and others.

If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.

Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.

It's not like you can aim for a home run and hit a home run.

'Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.