Explore Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

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.

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.

If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

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

You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person.

There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.

We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

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

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Endlessly amused by people's minds.

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.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

The conclusion is straightforward : self-control requires attention and effort.

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

Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.

Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.