Amos Tversky quotes
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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.”
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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.”
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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 TverskySource : Amos Tversky, Eldar Shafir (2004). “Preference, Belief, and Similarity: Selected Writings”, p.207, MIT Press
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“My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence; me, I study natural stupidity.”
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Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.208, Courier Corporation
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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Source : Achmat Dangor (1999). “Kafka's Curse”, Pantheon
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“In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.”
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