Heuristics Quote by Abraham Verghese

Life is full of signs that help you along the way, if you don't pay attention to the signs you may end up on…

— Nishan Panwar

“This life is full of signs, many of which find their way to you exactly when you need them most.”

— Christy Hall

“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

“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

To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to…

— Ernst Mayr

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

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

— Daniel Kahneman