You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

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.

Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.

Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.

I believe democracy requires a 'sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.

There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.

I just wanna kind of give the world something special.

Just because you're perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect.

The balanced life is a goal, but for us it is mostly a myth.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to.