260 Quotes by Nate Silver

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

The word objective is sometimes taken to be synonymous with quantitative, but it isn’t. Instead it means seeing beyond our personal biases and prejudices and toward the truth of a problem.

I’ve become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I’m actually doing and what I actually deserve.

In complex systems, however, mistakes are not measured in degrees but in whole orders of magnitude.

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

Successful gamblers, instead, think of the future as speckles of probability, flickering upward and downward like a stock market ticker to every new jolt of information.

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

I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it’s a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

It is the alternative – failing to change our forecast because we risk embarrassment by doing so – that reveals a lack of courage.