Most important, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.

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.

Beauty surrounds us.

Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.

If I was going to give Matt (Kenseth) a piece of advice, I'd say use the s- out of him. Every time you get, run him hard, because that's his weakness.

No matter what the results, the act of searching will always enrich my work.

Now you know how I justify my addictions—if I can pay less for it than I would at Wal-Mart, I get to have it.

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

I think more and more scientists are becoming convinced that it's very likely that life forms of some kind exist all around the universe not so far from us.

The movie industry used to be completely accessible. We all knew people in it, and nobody made a big fuss.

Disruption is about risk-taking. But then you become a Fortune 500 company, which is about risk mitigation

Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything.