Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters might like to accomplish and what fate provides them.

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

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.