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.
Nate SilverI was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
Nate SilverThe public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
Nate Silver