Quote

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

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
Success
Stills
Still
People
Ephemeral
Appreciate

More quotes by Nate Silver

Image
You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
Nate Silver
Image
Success makes you less intimidated by things.
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 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.
Nate Silver
Image
I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
Nate Silver
Image
People have different ways of interpreting history.
Nate Silver
Image
I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
Nate Silver
Image
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.
Nate Silver
Image
Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
Nate Silver
Image
I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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
Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.
Nate Silver
Image
Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
Nate Silver
Image
We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
Nate Silver
Image
People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
Nate Silver
Image
I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
Nate Silver
Image
Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.
Nate Silver
Image
To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.
Nate Silver
Image
If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
Nate Silver
Image
I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
Nate Silver