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To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.

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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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People have different ways of interpreting history.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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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.
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Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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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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Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.
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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in it's entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or thirteen-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next 'Twilight' movie.
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I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
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If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
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Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
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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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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 think you should limit what you read.
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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 lot of bullshit, basically.
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If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.
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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.
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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.
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