Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

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.

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 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.

The origin of the word fail means to stop functioning. So as long as you haven't stopped, you haven't failed.

And what could my father possibly want with another child, when he hardly bothered to talk to the one he already had?

The stories she'd read of others' lives over these last few months had left her with a greater appreciation for the thread of her own life.

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

A watermelon that breaks open by itself tastes better than one cut with a knife.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.

What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

Never undervalue the enemies, especially if they are stupid.