By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend tokeep.

Then you shouldn’t be worried about him being with me. You can have him back when I’m done with him.

When you say you’re a fan of the gore, what do you mean?”“The all supernatural bunch, love. The scarier the merrier.

When one's expectations are reduced to zero one really appreciates everything one does have.

The complacent the self-indulgent the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

CD4 being the level of the lymphocyte that indicates the level of your immune function.

The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.

There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.

Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not.