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

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.

If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.