The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory.

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.

The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.

A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.

Praised be my Lord, for our sister water.St. Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Sun

Live in day-tight compartments.

The fact that we have to discuss reality as though there were no reality is an indication of the confusion of our times.

Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

Unless you go forward then you are going back.

A year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return.

I joked recently that I thought 30 seconds a day for three years would be the best way to enjoy it, and I'm going to stand by that statement.