Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.

The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.

The conventional wisdom is often wrong.

And knowing what happens on average is a good place to start. By so doing, we insulate ourselves from the tendency to build our thinking - our daily decisions, our laws, our governance - on exceptions and anomalies rather than on reality