It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.

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

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

Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie.

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.

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.