Nate Silver
  • I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.

  • When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

  • When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

  • Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

  • 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.