Nate Silver Quotes

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

I was just taught very early that if I didn't solve problems, I was headed for a very dark path. Problems were everywhere. Now, even if there are no problems, I look for problems. I'm like, 'You know what? I don't like the way this spoon works. I want to design a new spoon.'

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.

I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

What does an entrepreneur do? The first thing is they've given themselves permission to see a problem. Most people don't want to see problems... Once you see a problem and you keep looking at it, you'll find an answer.

We can't get any new thinking because we can't get any new thinkers.

Sometimes a problem will seem completely insurmountable. Then someone comes up with a simple new idea, or just a rearrangement of old ideas, that completely eliminates it.

Entrepreneurs are moving from a world of problem-solving to a world of problem-finding. The very best ones are able to uncover problems people didn't realize that they had.

New stimuli can come from the same coach if he questions himself.

There's nothing like having some healthy competition. We really strive to think outside the box by taking the standard approach the then twisting it a little, all the while trying something new.

We're communicators, we're problem solvers, and we're lateral thinkers, and there's nothing that can't be improved with that. The world needs us, and we want to be needed.

Everything has been thought of before... the real problem is to think of it again.

A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail. As long as we're afraid to fail, we'll never come up with the big, bold ideas we need to solve these problems.

You can never discard too many bad ideas.

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.