People in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth.

We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.

You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.

People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage.

He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.