If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.

Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.

We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.

I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

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.

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

There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.