People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.

If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.

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

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.