Nate Silver Quotes

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

If you think you're right 80% of the time, you're deluded.

If someone underestimates you because you are warm and approachable, then you have an advantage over them.

Don't underestimate this little fat boy.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.

People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

At 20, you're cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

I like being misunderstood.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the effect for the cause.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

That's always a funny thing, when people think they're known for every little thing they ever did, and they're really not.

Anyone who thinks my life is cupcakes is all wrong.

There can be an easy way to interpret things some times and it seems like maybe I'm on the wrong side of those interpretations a lot of those times.

False confidence is false confidence.

I get underestimated every single day.

People think, 'Oh, I don't need to worry about him,' and they underestimate me because I am a rapper.