Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

An executive might have a very strong intuition that a given product has promise, without considering the probability that a rival is already ahead in developing the same product.

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

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.

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.

If there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: "Don't go to bed angry."

We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.