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" When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there. "

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

" The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information. "

" Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline. "

" Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press. "

" I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve. "

" The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are. "

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" People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting. "

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

" You don't want to treat any one person as oracular. "

" 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. "

" It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis. "

" 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 don't think you should limit what you read. "

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

" I have the same friends and the same bad habits. "

" Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office. "

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

" First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views. "

" 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. "

" Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately. "

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