Quote

I don't think you should limit what you read.

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
Limits
Read
Think
Thinking
Limit

More quotes by 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 still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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
I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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 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
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
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
I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
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
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.
Nate Silver
Image
Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.
Nate Silver
Image
The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
Nate Silver
Image
I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
Nate Silver
Image
I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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
Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
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