Nate Silver
Nate Silver

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

Nate Silver
Nate Silver

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

Nate Silver
Nate Silver

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Nate Silver
Nate Silver

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

Nate Silver
Nate Silver

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

Nate Silver
Nate Silver

There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

Nate Silver
Nate Silver

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

Nate Silver
Nate Silver

I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

Nate Silver
Nate Silver

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.

Nate Silver
Nate Silver

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

Nate Silver
Nate Silver

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

Nate Silver
Nate Silver

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

Nate Silver
Nate Silver

If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.

Nate Silver
Nate Silver

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

Nate Silver
Nate Silver

Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.

Nate Silver
Nate Silver

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

Nate Silver
Nate Silver

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

Nate Silver
Nate Silver

I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

Nate Silver
Nate Silver

Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

Nate Silver
Nate Silver

I've just always been a bit of a dork.