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Inspirational Quotes by Nate Silver
- The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
- Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
- We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.
- To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight,
- Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.
- If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
- If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
- Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.
- A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
- Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
- I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
- I've just always been a bit of a dork.
- Success makes you less intimidated by things.
- The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
- There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
- Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
- I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
- I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.
- I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
- In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
- People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
- The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
- We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
- We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
- You get steely nerves playing poker.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento