Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in.

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely.

Your immediate environment is comprised of coffee shops, supermarkets, websites, apps and all kinds of things - none of which have an interest in your long-term or short-term financial well-being.

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

Companies, however unintentionally, choke the motivation out of their employees.

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.

Brands communicate in two directions: they help us tell other people something about ourselves, but they also help us form ideas about who we are.

No one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist.

This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think?

The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.

Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

Berlin is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties.

A split second can ruin or boost the sequence.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one.

Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.

Pro Publica distorts the relationship between organizations and their consultants.