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.

We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

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

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

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.

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.