Laziness is built deep into our nature.

I'm not a great believer in self-help.

In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.

Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses even when they're very likely to be wrong.

I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.

... sometimes when you are asked a question that is difficult, the mind doesn't stay silent if it doesn't have the answer. The mind produces something, and what it produces very characteristically is the answer to an easier but related question.

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.