Amos Tversky famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Fall #Simple #Errors
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
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
My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence; me, I study natural stupidity.
-- Amos Tversky

#Stupidity #Study #Natural

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.
The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, Only a third is meant for you and me; Two-thirds are taken by the growing things Or vanish Heavenward on vapour's wings: Nor does it mathematically fall With social equity on one and all. The population's habit is to grow In every region where the water's low: Nature is blamed for failings that are Man's, And well-run rivers have to change their plans.
Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.
You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string
The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.
It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.
It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled
Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.
A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity â€“ a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

Amos Tversky famous quotes

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