Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They… — Hersh Shefrin Copy Share Image
There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As you look back in history, we [the United States] have done wonderful things, the Marshal Plan is the most obvious. After… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
I was writing my Ph.D. in the late 1980s and was keeping an eye on what was happening in the world. It… — Bidzina Ivanishvili Copy Share Image
The way I see it, thinking about the position of the club during the swing is about the worst way to play… — Rickie Fowler Copy Share Image
Those moments of solitude and exhibiting a mental breakdown, and how you do that physically and without it being too obvious, but… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
It was obvious uh, that uh, the situation in Vietnam was far from stable in 1964 and that there, if in fact… — McGeorge Bundy Copy Share Image
The joy of a road movie is its very simple narrative nature, which is that you know you're going to go through… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I remember reading about a court case where a man tried to stab a judge with a pencil. There are Google pages… — Don Ihde Copy Share Image
My main qualm about TV criticism has been when people review TV the way they review movies. They watch the pilot, and… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a… — Ricardo Sanchez Copy Share Image
It's true that there is a rescue thing in people, and not just rescuing the family, which is kind of obvious from… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It became obvious that we had completely failed to impose rules on unbridled speculative capitalism. That destroyed financial systems, hollowed out state… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
I called up and said, 'Dad, I won a MacArthur.' My father goes: 'I always thought your sister would win that,' and… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
I think we have reached a level in society - with Helen Mirren playing The Queen - when we're not surprised any… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way… — John Breaux Copy Share Image
If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
It's weird doing a show on a Saturday, because we get the news after everybody had their way with it. We still… — Michael Che Copy Share Image
Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
While on the level of civil rights many things have changed decisively for the better, on the level of attitudes and mentality… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in our solar system: Mars. Because it… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I think that the FIDE leaders have to reconsider the current drawing rules - their advantages aren't very clear, but their shortcomings… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the… — Mary Ann Glendon Copy Share Image
And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Philosophical progress changes what we take to be "intuitively" obvious, and this change covers up the tracks of the laborious arguments that… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I thought if the climate was heating that CO2 was the only forcing, and it would be late in the century before… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
I'm sure it's very obvious . . . how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life.… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
The most obvious risk was that the Russian speaking population was threatened and that the threats were absolutely specific and tangible. This… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
I really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes… — Donna Fargo Copy Share Image
I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we… — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
We quickly erase hoaxes once exposed, excising the monstrous palimpsest, because as with any witch hunt or obvious fake, afterward we can't… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image