If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

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.

How beautiful it is to feel that what you cannot describe?

It is amazing how sharing of one’s intimate details can make human beings forget the formality of a relationship and bring them closer together.

Dress for the position you want, not the position you have.

A new star shines bright.Angels herald the good news.The Christ child is born.

I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.

If you can create community in a classroom the kids will not drop out

You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!

You never understand how dear your privacy is until you lose it.

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.