Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.
“Feeling superior and beyond it is a sure sign that the irrational is at work.”
― The Concise Laws of Human Nature
― The Concise Laws of Human Nature
“even sophisticated researchers have poor intuitions and a wobbly understanding of sampling effects.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Many facts of the world are due to chance, including accidents of sampling. Causal explanations of chance events are inevitably wrong.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“أؤمن كل الايمان بأن الموظف رقيق القرن العشرين”
― أنا
― أنا
“أومن بالتشجيع والظروف والرغبة تتلاقي معاً وتتوافق فى الخطوات الأولي .. ولا أومن بها متفرقة يتيسر بعضها ويتعذر بعضها فى مستهل الطريق”
― أنا
― أنا
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