I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.

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.

Data-driven predictions can succeed-and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure rise. Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand more of ourselves.

Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.

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.

To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.