Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

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.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.

America is great, because America is free.

We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power.

Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.

Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.

The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you

I was so poor growing up...if I wasn't a boy...I'd have nothing to play with.

I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.