Nate Silver Quotes

How it is we have so much information, but know so little?

The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.

The Internet is the single biggest creator of ignorance mankind has ever created, as well as the single biggest eliminator of that ignorance. It’s our ability to filter that eliminates the former and empowers the latter.

It's very difficult to get to the truth and ironically, in the Information Age, which we would have thought meant channels to the truth is in fact obfuscating the truth.

Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

Although the Internet could be making all of us smarter, it makes many of us stupider, because it's not just a magnet for the curious. It's a sinkhole for the gullible.

We are held hostage to the lack of information that we have at our fingertips. We don’t always have the information that is needed to make a proper decision.

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

We mistake being able to get lots of information from everywhere very quickly with actually getting knowledge.

It's not as if Trump is addicted to the best-researched, most in-depth, meticulously sourced material in the world. If he were, we'd all be better off, right?

I'm kind of fascinated by this idea that we can surround ourselves with information: we can just pile up data after data after data and arm ourselves with facts and yet still not be able to answer the questions that we have.

I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions.

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

When did ignorance become a point of view?

To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.

I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information age. Sometimes I think the web is a big plot to keep people like me away from normal society.

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.