Quotes About Insight

He who sees the past as surprise-free is bound to have a future full of surprises.

Those who say don't know, those who know don't say

Those who say don't know, and those who know don't say.

Knowledge is literally prediction," said Morey. "Knowledge is anything that increases your ability to predict the outcome. Literally

the people who already saw themselves as experts in the field would be least capable of original thought.

The power of an imagination can arise from what it refuses to foresee.

Why do you always answer a question with another question?" "Clarity," he said.

Best of all, he gave us a rule of thumb about information in the markets that I later found useful: "Those who say don't know, and those who know don't say.

When asked the key to his success, he said, "In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

I set out to write this book only because I thought it would be better to tell the story than to go on living the story.

The trick was not simply to write the code that turned information into pictures but to find the best pictures to draw—shapes and colors that led the mind to meaning.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn't teach us anything.

THE SECRET OF SUCCESS IS TO UNDERSTAND THE POINT OF VIEW OF OTHERS. —Henry Ford

Once, he got himself invited to a meeting with the CEO of Bank of America, Ken Lewis. "I was sitting there listening to him. I had an epiphany. I said to myself, 'Oh my God, he's dumb!' A lightbulb went off. The guy running one of the biggest banks in the world is dumb!

In my entire life I never saw a sell-side guy come in and say, 'Short my market

He found a book called Human Error, by a British psychologist aptly named James Reason.

Morey had no way of knowing that people with a gift for using numbers to predict things would overrun professional sports management and everyplace else high-stakes decisions were being made

On the Psychology of Prediction

supernatural gift, but it was a matter as much of his limitations as of his strengths. He could see human society in ways that most businessmen could not, because he was not very much a part of it. And consciously or not, by retiring to his floating island, he preserved this precious limitation.

Knowledge is literally prediction," said Morey. "Knowledge is anything that increases your ability to predict the outcome.

No one cares about data when everything is going well," said Josh Wills, the former chief data engineer at Slack, who agreed to help. "People only care about data when the shit hits the fan. 'Oh my God, what's going on??? We need data!

that'll go to zero. Everything will be observed. Everything will be predicted.

The difference between being very smart and very foolish is often very small.

There was a relentlessness in the way Danny's mind moved from insight to application. Psychologists, especially the ones who became university professors, weren't exactly known for being useful. The demands of being an Israeli had forced Danny to find a talent in himself he might otherwise never have spotted.