Nate Silver Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.”

“When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.”

“The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.”

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

“I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.”

“You get steely nerves playing poker.”

“I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.”

“People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.”

“We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.”

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