Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

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.

Books are the most tolerant of friends.

It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.

More than any other colonial founder, Oglethorpe made himself one of the people, promoting collective effort.

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.

Queen Elizabeth, she's the ultimate hypocrite!

I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.

I've never worked with an acting coach, no.

I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.

Football is not a job, but my best therapy