To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of…

“Substituting one question for another can be a good strategy for solving difficult problems, and George Pólya included substitution in his classic How to…

— Daniel Kahneman

Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past…

— Gore Vidal

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI…

— Daniel Kahneman

“There are many counterintuitive and surprising ways companies can boost users’ motivation or increase their ability by understanding heuristics — the mental shortcuts we…

— Nir Eyal

“heuristics are simple, efficient rules—either hard-wired in our brains or learned—that kick in especially when we're facing problems with incomplete information.”

— David DiSalvo

Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee.

— Steve McConnell

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

— Imre Lakatos

“intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“In his excellent book Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams (1997), Mitchel Resnick outlines a list of five heuristics associated with the aggregation of interactions:…

— Rich Jolly

It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one…

— Imre Lakatos

“Life is full of signs. The trick is to know how to read them. Ghosh called this heuristics, a method for solving a problem…

— Abraham Verghese

“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.”

— Daniel Kahneman

By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.

— Woody Allen

“people rely on a limited number of heuristic principles which reduce the complex tasks of assessing probabilities and predicting values to simpler judgmental operations.…

— Daniel Kahneman

“When heuristics don’t yield the results we expect, you’d think we would eventually realize that something’s wrong. Even if we don’t locate the biases,…

— Sheena Iyengar