The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.

If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.

The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.

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

We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.