List of Nate Silver Quotes

People Have Different Ways Of Interpreting History.

Voters' Memories Will Fade Some.

I Think Punditry Serves No Purpose.

If The State Polls Are Right, Then Mr. Obama Will Win The Electoral College. If You Can't Acknowledge That After A Day When Mr. Obama Leads 19 Out Of 20 Swing-state Polls, Then You Should Abandon The Pretense That Your Goal Is To Inform Rather Than Entertain The Public.

Plenty Of Pundits Have Really High Iqs, But They Don't Have Any Discipline In How They Look At The World, And So It Leads To A Lot Of Bullshit, Basically.

To My Friends, I’m Kind Of Sexually Gay But Ethnically Straight.

Shakespeare's Plays Often Turn On The Idea Of Fate, As Much Drama Does. What Makes Them So Tragic Is The Gap Between What His Characters Might Like To Accomplish And What Fate Provides Them.

I Don't Play Fantasy Baseball Anymore Now Because It's Too Much Work, And I Feel Like I Have To Hold Myself Up To Such A High Standard. I'm Pretty Serious About My Fantasy Football, Though.

The Thing That People Associate With Expertise, Authoritativeness, Kind Of With A Capital 'a,' Don't Correlate Very Well With Who's Actually Good At Making Predictions.

We're Living In A World Where Google Beats Gallup.

The Public Is Even More Pessimistic About The Economy Than Even The Most Bearish Economists Are.

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.