Daniel Kahneman

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time. ”

Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right. ”

One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important. ”

Most people are highly optimistic most of the time. ”

Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast. ”

If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea. ”

People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure. ”

When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off. ”

We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works. ”

All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal. ”