Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.

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.

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

To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

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