We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.

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.

Once taken by her, you glowedAnd you drank her poisons, content. Because all the stars seemed to grow, And fields had a different scent, Autumn fields.

I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.

Fundamentally I am a wrestler and like being on top and I like my grounding and pounding.

Left Eye, man...who else has more personality than Left Eye?

Never pay attention to the rumors and what they assume

All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?

We need to cut regulations. Apparently this will make everyone a little more socially responsible?

The best aspects of every vampire, with all of their gifts, what makes them really special is just an enhanced version of what they were when they were human.

Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance