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I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times. And so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.
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First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
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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 high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.
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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.
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To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.
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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.
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