Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won't remember them.

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

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.

People have little idea, by and large, of the investment world. They are convinced they have an advantage.

Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.

You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person.

People who face a difficult question often answer an easier one instead, without realizing it.