Amos Tversky Quotes

• My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence; me, I study natural stupidity.

  Amos Tversky

  Stupidity, Study, Natural

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• It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.

  Amos Tversky

  Running, Thinking, People

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• Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.

  Amos Tversky

  Wisdom, Mistake, Fall

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• Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted.

  Amos Tversky

  One Direction, Self, Opposites

  Amos Tversky, Eldar Shafir (2004). “Preference, Belief, and Similarity: Selected Writings”, p.207, MIT Press

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