If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.

Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.