Nate Silver Quotes

Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

More time is wasted in front of computers than on highways.

An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress

Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

Let me tell you about my day. I get up at 8 o'clock in the morning. At 8:30 am, I leave the house and I arrive at my office at 8:37. I stay in the office until 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I get in my Porsche and I'm home at 2:03 because the one-way streets make it faster for me to drive. And between 8:36 am and 2 pm, I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.'

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

Most people simply don't view going to meetings as doing work.

But what was it Haymitch said when I asked if he had told Peeta the situation? That he had to pretend to be desperately in love? “Don’t have to. He’s already there.

There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.

He looks like the good boy he's never been.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

The better a work environment is, the better it is for the employer - not just the employee.

You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill.

Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

One of the first lessons a necromancer learns is the art of playing dumb. Of course, one problem with playing dumb is that is seeps into your everyday life. ~Jaime Vegas

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.

Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.

My life is a movie set. These people, they all think this is real, but it's not.

Forget socialism, capitalism, just-in-time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest ... concentrate on building organizations that accomplish that most difficult of all challenges: to make people look forward to coming to work in the morning.