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To the untrained eye," Feller remarks, "randomness appears as regularity or tendency to cluster.

Let's not fall for the outcome bias. This was a stupid decision even though it worked out well.

The aphorisms were judged more insightful when they rhymed than when they did not. Finally, if you quote a source, choose one with a name that is easy to pronounce.

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the recommendations of Nudge require firms to offer contracts that are sufficiently simple to be read and understood by Human customers.

Every author, I suppose, has in mind a setting in which readers of his or her work could benefit from having read it.

investment decisions. Why be concerned with gossip? Because it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable

The perception of intention and emotion is irresistible; only people afflicted by autism do not experience it.

The initial enthusiasm for the idea in the Ministry of Education had waned by the time the text was delivered and it was never used.

Every large branch of the company has several qualified underwriters. When a quote is requested, anyone who happens to be available may be assigned to prepare it. In effect, the particular underwriter who will determine a quote is selected by a lottery.

even sophisticated researchers have poor intuitions and a wobbly understanding of sampling effects.

The most coherent stories are not necessarily the most probable, but they are plausible, and the notions of coherence, plausibility, and probability are easily confused by the unwary.

Memorizing and repeating digits loosens the hold of System 2 on behavior, but of course cognitive load is not the only cause of weakened self-control. A few drinks have the same effect, as does a sleepless night. The self-control of morning people is impaired at night; the reverse is true of night people.

Amos was more conservative than I was about hunches, and he cor- rectly pointed out that appealing to suggestion did not help us understand anchoring, because we did not know how to explain suggestion.

An epic without a focus - without a single action, a coherent plot, a single terrible point to make - was just a very long poem.

Chinul, the twelfth-century Korean Ch'an master, expresses this freedom magnificently in his treatise Secrets of Cultivating the Mind:

a man on a scaffold throwing a tree at another man on another scaffold.

Nootropic drugs can be important weapons in the battle against premature degeneration,senility, and death.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

El humor, esa expresión irreductible de ética.

Giovedì 28 Febbraio 1957, Essere a temperatura ambiente. Ecco tutta la mia ambizione.

The question isn't whether I have time to read or not (time that nobody will ever give me, by the way), but whether I'll allow myself the pleasure of being a reader.

I ask the reader- is there any reason to believe that these idiots will fail to blow up the world? The answer is: Only by accident will the present power elite, in this country and others, fail to blow up the world.

I guess I'd rather live in a world where bad things happen for some reason than no reason.