3 December 2020 Nate Silver By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
3 December 2020 Nate Silver I’ve become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I’m actually doing and what I actually deserve.
3 December 2020 Nate Silver When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.
3 December 2020 Nate Silver In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
3 December 2020 Nate Silver We’re not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information – and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
3 December 2020 Nate Silver First of all, I think it’s odd that people who cover politics wouldn’t have any political views.
3 December 2020 Nate Silver When you try to predict future E.R.A.’s with past E.R.A.’s, you’re making a mistake.
3 December 2020 Nate Silver Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
3 December 2020 Nate Silver 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.
3 December 2020 Nate Silver I love South American food, and I haven’t really been down there. I really need a vacation.
