Nate Silver

I think punditry serves no purpose.

— Nate Silver

Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.

— Nate Silver

We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.

— Nate Silver

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

— Nate Silver

Voters memories will fade some.

— Nate Silver

You get steely nerves playing poker.

— Nate Silver

I'm a pro-horserace guy.

— Nate Silver

I don't think you should limit what you read.

— Nate Silver

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

— Nate Silver

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

— Nate Silver

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

— Nate Silver

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

— Nate Silver

I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

— Nate Silver

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

— Nate Silver

“Where our enemies will strike us is predictable: it's where we least expect them to.”

— Nate Silver

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

— Nate Silver

“If there is a mutual distrust between the weather forecaster and the public, the public may not listen when they need to…

— Nate Silver

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

— Nate Silver

I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up…

— Nate Silver

Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between…

— Nate Silver

New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

— Nate Silver

The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good…

— Nate Silver

I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality…

— 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

Data-driven predictions can succeed-and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure…

— Nate Silver

“The instinctual shortcut that we take when we have “too much information” is to engage with it selectively, picking out the parts…

— Nate Silver

“He does not depend on insider tips, crooked referees, or other sorts of hustles to make his bets. Nor does he have…

— Nate Silver

Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you…

— 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…

— Nate Silver

If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day…

— Nate Silver

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that…

— Nate Silver

“One conceit of economics is that markets as a whole can perform fairly rationally, even if many of the participants within them…

— Nate Silver

“Good innovators typically think very big and they think very small. New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of…

— Nate Silver

“Most of you will have heard the maxim "correlation does not imply causation." Just because two variables have a statistical relationship with…

— Nate Silver

“As the statistician George E. P. Box wrote, "All models are wrong, but some models are useful." What he meant by that…

— Nate Silver

“The alchemy that the ratings agencies performed was to spin uncertainty into what looked and felt like risk. They took highly novel…

— Nate Silver

“You will need to learn how to express-and quantify-the uncertainty in your predictions. You will need to update your forecast as facts…

— Nate Silver

“Although Israel is targeted by terrorists much more frequently than the United States, Israelis do not live in fear of terrorism. A…

— Nate Silver

“But forecasters often resist considering these out-of-sample problems. When we expand our sample to include events further apart from us in time…

— Nate Silver

Expert estimates of probability are often off by factors of hundreds or thousands. [...] I used to be annoyed when the margin…

— Nate Silver