Gigerenzer Quotes

#1. The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils I will believe it a good comfortable road untill I am conpelled to beleive differently.

Stephen E. Ambrose

#3. I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy
that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

Gerd Gigerenzer

#4. An intuition is neither caprice nor a sixth sense but a form of unconscious intelligence.

Gerd Gigerenzer

#5. I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.

Douglas Adams

#6. Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.

Gerd Gigerenzer

#7. I don't know what my IQ is. People who gloat about their IQ's are losers

Stephen Hawking

#8. We have to learn to live with uncertainty.

Gerd Gigerenzer

#9. Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.

Gerd Gigerenzer

#10. Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but Nutella and shoes seem to run a close second.

David Alejandro Fearnhead