Computers Quote by Daniel Kahneman

“Several teams of German psychologists that have studied the RAT in recent years have come up with remarkable discoveries about cognitive ease. One of…

— Daniel Kahneman

I do not so easily think in words.... after being hard at work having arrived at results that are perfectly clear... I have to…

— Francis Galton

“Intuitives tend to define intelligence as “quickness of understanding” and so prejudge the case in their own favor, for intuition is very quick.”

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“once in a cognitive tunnel, we lose our ability to direct our focus. Instead, we latch on to the easiest and most obvious stimulus,…

— Charles Duhigg

You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday…

— Paul Valery

“As we have seen, the modern mind has a distorted image of itself that leads it to neglect some of its own most valuable…

— Guy Claxton

“This complex constellation of responses occurred quickly, automatically, and effortlessly. You did not will it and you could not stop it. It was an…

— Daniel Kahneman

I work a lot on words, so if I hear a word or see a word or a phrase or a sentence that someone…

— Jade Bird

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

— George Berkeley

If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.

— Crawford Kilian

“This is another paradox, that many of the most important impressions and thoughts in a person's life are ones that flash through your head…

— David Foster Wallace

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose…

— Bill Vaughan