Amos Tversky Quotes
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My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence; me, I study natural stupidity.
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“Metaphors replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.”
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“For all we know, the handwriting might have been on the wall all along. The question is: was the ink invisible?”
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Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.
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“When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.”
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It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.
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Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted.
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“He who sees the past as surprise free is bound to have a future full of surprises.”