A lot of things can't be modeled very well.

People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

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.

We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

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.

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