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Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

- Nate Silver
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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.

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

I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

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

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.

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

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

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.

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.

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Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.