We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

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.

We have to accept that there are certain things in our life that are inescapable. These are the things that come natural to us and are necessary to our existence.

Best not to take, yet doubt its strength, A leash with Demons at its length.

Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

Do you have any bald ice cream?

Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

I love doing stuff that I haven't done before. That's the goal: To keep reinventing myself.