To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

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.

I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I’ve been saved from myself.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

Be committed to whatever you're doing. That's something I've taken to heart and tried to do with whatever activities I take up.

The main thing is to not cut yourself and bleed to death in the tub.

I will not take "but" for an answer.

A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively.

The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.