Nate Silver Quotes about Marketing

There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

Risk, Marketing

The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.

Marketing, Noise, Signals

Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.21, Penguin

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

Marketing, Probability, Comfortable

Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.20, Penguin

New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

Ideas, Marketing, Details

Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.76, Penguin

Success makes you less intimidated by things.

Marketing, Intimidated

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Self, Marketing, Noise

Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.309, Penguin

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

Google, Marketing, World

"Hit political blogger Nate Silver on future of predictive modeling". Interview with David K. Randall, www.reuters.com. November 9, 2012.