Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent signal or noise

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

I 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.

I don't think you should limit what you read.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.