Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in it's entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or thirteen-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next 'Twilight' movie.

Nate Silver's Popular Quotes

When a possibility is unfamiliar to us, we do not even think about it.

- Nate Silver

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…

- Nate Silver

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 repre…

- Nate Silver

We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.

- Nate Silver

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

- Nate Silver

The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

- Nate Silver

The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.

- Nate Silver

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

- Nate Silver

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

- Nate Silver