Quotes About Daniel

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.

Moscow. Between 1238 and 1368 the city was sacked only once, in 1293; no other city in northern Russia escaped enemy attack for as long a time. It was during this period, in 1263, that Daniel, the youngest son of the highly effective ruler of Vladimir, Alexander Nevsky, became the ruler of Moscow, which was now the capital of a permanent principality. Daniel is considered the founder of the princely house of Moscow.

The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics

The Robust Beauty of Improper Linear Models in Decision Making.

representativeness can block the application of an obvious logical rule is also of some interest.

Most importantly, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.

System noise, that is, unwanted variability in judgments that should ideally be identical, can create rampant injustice, high economic costs, and errors of many kinds.

the weighted average of its possible dollar outcomes; it is the average of the utilities of these outcomes, each weighted by its probability.

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

As we have seen, rationality is generally served by broader and more comprehensive frames, and joint evaluation is obviously broader than single evaluation.

I never met Meehl, but he was one of my heroes from the time I read his Clinical vs. Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical Analysis and a Review of the Evidence.

Atul Gawande's recent A Checklist Manifesto

Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it.

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

Venn diagrams apply only to probability, not to similarity. Hence the predictable logical error that many people make.

book titled Rationality and the Reflective Mind

Writing a novel, said Humboldt, seemed to him the perfect way to capture the most fleeting essence of the present for the future.

Punctuation, is? fun!

There's always a den mother in LSD groups, and in my experience it's usually a Goth girl.

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

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.