Amos Tversky Quotes

#1. [Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.

Amos Tversky

#2. 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

#3. 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.

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#4. Amos believed that people go way out of their way to avoid minor embarrassments and he decided very early on in his life that it was not worth it.

Amos Tversky

#5. 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

#6. My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence; me, I study natural stupidity.

Amos Tversky