By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

I've just always been a bit of a dork.

One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if the amount of knowledge in the world is increasing, the gap between what we know and what we think we know may be widening.

You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.

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.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.