Daniel Kahneman

Amos was always very funny, and in his presence I became funny as well, so we spent hours of solid work in continuous amusement. The pleasure we found in working together made us exceptionally patient; it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are never bored

This book presents my current understanding of judgment and decision making

we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

If you can do this, you will never again be fooled by the Müller-Lyer illusion. But you will still see one line as longer than the other.

To implement that rule, you must be able to recognize the illusory pattern and recall what you know about it. If you can do this, you will never again be fooled by the Müller-Lyer illusion. But you will still see one line as longer than the other

if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action.

An inability to be guided by a “healthy fear” of bad consequences is a disastrous flaw.

Narrative fallacies arise inevitably from our continuous attempt to make sense of the world.

A compelling narrative fosters an illusion of inevitability.

You build the best possible story from the information available to you, and if it is a good story, you believe it. Paradoxically, it is easier to construct a coherent story when you know little, when there are fewer pieces to fit into the puzzle. Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.