Nate Silver

"I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation."

"When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen."

"When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake."

"Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge."

"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."

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