All Nate Silver Quotes
- I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a… Anymore
- 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. Baseball
- Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict… Accept
- Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters… Accomplish
- The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth. Distracts
- We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it. Admit
- One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if the amount of… Age
- Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules. Always Played
- Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don’t have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a… Any
- We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning. Funny
- If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama… Abandon
- The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress. Certainty
- I know it's cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the mission of what these great… Brands
- To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight, Ethnically
- New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look. Bother
- 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… All
- We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup. Beats
- Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races. Inspiration
- When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen Big
- Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician. Data
- Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise. Accentuate
- If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy. Busy
- If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot. Inspirational
- People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is. Appreciate
- Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much. Any