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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.