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

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" If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't. "

" If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it. "

" All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to. "

" I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being. "

" I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience. "

" If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy. "

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

" If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring. "

" A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view. "

" We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that. "

" The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before. "

" I'm not trying to do anything too tricky. "

" 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. "

" The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake. "

" Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him. "

" A lot of things can't be modeled very well. "

" Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense. "

" I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs. "

" Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much. "

" Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak. "

" I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have. "

" You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast. "

" I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.' "

" Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome. "

" If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot. "

" To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.' "