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.

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

I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

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.

Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent signal or noise

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

People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.