The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory

If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens.

When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.

Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales.

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.