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.

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

Success makes you less intimidated by things.

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.

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.

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

I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.