Daniel Kahneman Quotes

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• Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.
• A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving…
• Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
• This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.
• The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.
• The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if…
• You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.
• People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability.
• The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.
• Suppose you like someone very much. Then, by a familiar halo effect, you will also be prone to believe many good things about that person…
• By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are…
• People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance,…
• When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to…
• I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list…
• People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with,…
• If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people…
• Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.
• We think of our future as anticipated memories.

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