Nate Silver

“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.”

“Success makes you less intimidated by things.”

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

“We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.”

“To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'”

“I'm a pro-horserace guy.”

“By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.”

“Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.”

“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're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.”

“I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.”

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

“Voters memories will fade some.”

“If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.”

“I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.”

“I think punditry serves no purpose.”

“I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.”

“A lot of things can't be modeled very well.”