Top 77 Quotes by Nate Silver

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

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

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

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.

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

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

To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

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

Success makes you less intimidated by things.

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.