Quote

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

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
Quality
High
Sure
Human
Humans
Endeavor
Make
Name
Good
Choices
Time
Names

More quotes by Nate Silver

Image
People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
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
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
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.
Nate Silver
Image
Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
Nate Silver
Image
To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
Nate Silver
Image
People have different ways of interpreting history.
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
People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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
When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen
Nate Silver
Image
To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.
Nate Silver
Image
I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
Nate Silver
Image
Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.
Nate Silver
Image
Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
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
First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
Nate Silver
Image
Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.
Nate Silver
Image
If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
Nate Silver