The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.

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.

Let's just call it like it is, no need to pretty it up. I care what other people think of me. I'm not Jesus Christ. I'm just a girl in the world.

Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

You crush me with the things you do, I do for anything too...each moment the more I love you.

One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.

Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.

Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.

Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.

Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.