The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.

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.

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.