Nate Silver Quotes - Page 4

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.

I've just always been a bit of a dork.

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.

You get steely nerves playing poker.

Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.

We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

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

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.

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

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.

People have different ways of interpreting history.