Many people will admit that they made a mistake [putting money in dot-coms or telecoms at their peak] But that doesn’t mean that they’ve changed their mind about anything in particular. It doesn’t mean that they are now able to avoid that mistake.

There are some conditions where you have to trust your intuition.

The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.

People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents have behaviors. We understand agents. We form global impression of their personalities. We are really not very good at remembering sentences where the subject of the sentence is an abstract notion.

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

People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.