“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”

“We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.”

“The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.”

“...the characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is understood more easily if it describes what an agent (system 2) does than if it describes what someth...”

“The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.”

“Characteristics of System 1: generates impressions, feelings, and inclinations; when endorsed by System 2 these become beliefs, attitudes, and intentions operates automatically and quickly, with ...”

“Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make the...”

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

“A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.”

“Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.”

“The tendency to trust easily anyone gives way to a certain vulnerability.”

“Face after face contorted in hate, men, women, children. Whatever lies had been voiced against me had clearly gained near-universal acceptance. I knew then that, regardless of what transpired here,...”

“The spirit of pessimism inside of her was purely organic.”

“I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.”

“Today ain't in the mood to write... btw my name is Stevy.”