Quote

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

Nate Silver

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
Journalist
Mathematician
Poker Player
Statistician
East Lansing
Michigan
Nathaniel Read Silver
Nathaniel Read Nate Silver
Power
Doe
Really
Transcend
Invested
Symbolic
Deserve
Actually
Become

More quotes by Nate Silver

Image
Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.
Nate Silver
Image
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
Nate Silver
Image
You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.
Nate Silver
Image
When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen
Nate Silver
Image
People have different ways of interpreting history.
Nate Silver
Image
Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
Nate Silver
Image
Success makes you less intimidated by things.
Nate Silver
Image
A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
Nate Silver
Image
Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.
Nate Silver
Image
Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
Nate Silver
Image
I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
Nate Silver
Image
All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.
Nate Silver
Image
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.
Nate Silver
Image
New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.
Nate Silver
Image
I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
Nate Silver
Image
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 leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public.
Nate Silver
Image
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 journalistic brands are about.
Nate Silver
Image
First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
Nate Silver
Image
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
Nate Silver
Image
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 knowledge in the world is increasing, the gap between what we know and what we think we know may be widening.
Nate Silver