In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right. – Nate Silver
Were 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. – Nate Silver
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. – Nate Silver
By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes. – Nate Silver
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. – Mark Twain