Nate Silver

“Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.”

“The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.”

“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.”

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

“You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you'...”

“You get steely nerves playing poker.”

“There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.”