Nate Silver Quotes - Page 3

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.

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

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.

Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.

Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters might like to accomplish and what fate provides them.

We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

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.

Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.

You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.

The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

I think punditry serves no purpose.

Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

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

A lot of things can't be modeled very well.

I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.

I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.