The people who hate SICP are the ones who just want to know how to drive their car on the highway, just like everyone else.

Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens of Google engineers use Python, and we're looking for more people with skills in this language.

Let me just say that, if you ever have the choice of putting your words in powerpoint or having them carved into 30-foot high marble, I'd say go for the marble.

More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.

My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings.

All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.

Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.