I'm not a great believer in self-help.

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.

Great things often start out small, and only open minds can perceive their inception.

Most of the dreams that have suffered to death were murdered by their own owners.

There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance.

I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.

I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

I am too old to think.

Whatever you do, do with deep alertness, then even small things become sacred.