The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

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

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.

We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.

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.