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

The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

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.

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent signal or noise

I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.