New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

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

You get steely nerves playing poker.

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

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times. And so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.