We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.

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.

Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.

One life

My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice.

Always walk out the door ahead of your dog when leaving the house. This will show your dog who is in the leadership role.

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

I'm not interested in observed reality.

Great saints are never wimps.

You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

I'm someone who had a deep emotional attachment to 'Starsky and Hutch.'