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" A lot of the time nothing happens in a day. "

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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 its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie. "

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" I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over. "

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" Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately. "

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" I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts. "

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" People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it. "

" I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt. "

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" We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup. "

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