You get steely nerves playing poker.

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.

Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.

In a negotiation, we must find a solution that pleases everyone, because no one accepts that they must lose and that the other must win... Both must win!

They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree.

And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.

I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

Be generous, be humble, and be grateful when achieving your dreams.

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

Going forward, which story will the media find more interesting, [Donald] Trump's or Hillary's [Clinton]? Does Hillary even have a story? Does anyone even care?

You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you're just the same.

Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.