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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance. ↗

— Nate Silver

#answer #extent #find #know #making

When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake. ↗

— Nate Silver

#making #mistake #past #predict #try

You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects. ↗

— Nate Silver

#build #choices #dealing #example #financial

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#earth #escaping #fatal #final #greatest

I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#death #die #fear #i #just

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#claim #culture #deepest #derive #existence

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#catholic church #church #depiction #meant #meant to be

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#find #fire #malice #mark #pretence

I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves. ↗

— Carly Simon

#bad #got #i #i think #later

I voted for President Bush, I voted for President Clinton, and, although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama. ↗