Siying

“confidence was cash. You had to have some to get some. And people were loath to give it to you.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

“When we talk about decision-making, we usually focus just on the immediate payoff of a single decision—and if you treat every decision as if it were your last, then indeed only exploitation makes sense. But over a lifetime, you’re going to make a lot of decisions. And it’s actually rational to emphasize exploration—the new rather than the best, the exciting rather than the safe, the random rather than the considered—for many of those choices, particularly earlier in life.”
― Brian Christian, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

“I sometimes suspect that inside every data scientist is a kid trying to figure out why his childhood dreams didn't come true.”
― Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

“You are remembered, he said, prophetically, for the rules you break. I”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog