Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.

The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.

Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; in a month, there are about 600,000 - most of them don't leave a trace.

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.