I'm Not A Great Believer

I Enjoy Being Active, But I Look Forward To The Day When I Can Retire To The Internet.

We Have Associations To Things. We Have, You Know, We Have Associations To Tables And To - And To Dogs And To Cats And To Harvard Professors, And That's The Way The Mind Works. It's An Association Machine.

If Individuals Are Rational, There Is No Need To Protect Them Against Their Own Choices.

To Know Whether You Can Trust A Particular Intuitive Judgment, There Are Two Questions You Should Ask: Is The Environment In Which The Judgment Is Made Sufficiently Regular To Enable Predictions From The Available Evidence? The Answer Is Yes For Diagnosticians, No For Stock Pickers. Do The Professionals Have An Adequate Opportunity To Learn The Cues And The Regularities? The Answer Here Depends On The Professionals' Experience And On The Quality And Speed With Which They Discover Their Mistakes.

The Psychologist, Paul Rozin, An Expert On Disgust, Observed That A Single Cockroach Will Completely Wreck The Appeal Of A Bowl Of Cherries, But A Cherry Will Do Nothing At All For A Bowl Of Cockroaches.