So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

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.

Be the fire when they feel cold, you go out, they are without

Rory did not want her. After devoting so much effort to avoid being wed to a man she did not want, she found herself bound to a man who did not want her.

People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage.

For Beatrice - you will always be in my mind, in my heart and in your grave.

A stunner…reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest.

Pity is a really odd thing with abused women. You don't want anyone to think that you feel bad - even though you might.

When I was out of favor and people didn't want that type of boot, flats, or high heels with the elegant, dainty things, it gave me much more energy.

Be a bringer of the Light. For your light can do more than illuminate your own path, you can be the light which truly lights the world.

And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.

If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against.