"Basically, books were a luxury item before the……" — Nate Silver

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

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75 Quotes by Nate Silver

Nate Silver has 75 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold…
I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's…
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot…
Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the…
The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very…
One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that…
Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don’t have any discipline in how they look at the world, and…
We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.
If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after…
The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

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More Book Quotes

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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