The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times. And so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.

We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in it's entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or thirteen-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next 'Twilight' movie.

I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.

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

The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.