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

you know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious.

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Most things that couples disagree upon aren't worth more than a day's combat.

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.

Unfortunately, skill in evaluating the business prospects of a firm is not sufficient for successful stock trading, where the key question is whether the information about the firm is already incorporated in the price of the stock. Traders apparently lackthe skill to answer this crucial question, but they appear to be ignorant of their ignorance.

The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%.