Zachary Shore > Quotes

“Expertise in any given single area is not enough to guarantee either prudent policies or the avoidance of blunders.”
― Zachary Shore, Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions

“While theories are a necessary aspect of planning, their true danger comes when we forget how often individuals, businesses, and nations defy the prototypes we assign them.”
― Zachary Shore, Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions

“Some people might be born with a predisposition to better judgment, but the rest of us, I believe, have to grow wiser by hard work.”
― Zachary Shore, Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions

“All kinds of daily interactions would be altered if we suspended our insufficiently informed conclusions over why others act the way they do.”
― Zachary Shore, Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions

“A healthy skepticism about all causation is wisest for both traditional and alternative approaches.”
― Zachary Shore, Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions

“Some people believe that too much information is a dangerous thing, but it is only this idea that is dangerous.”
― Zachary Shore, Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions

“The notion that too much information can be a distraction is off the mark. The quantity of information is irrelevant; it is the relevance of any quantity that matters.”
― Zachary Shore, Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions

“you must train yourself to read for thesis, not just content. In some undergraduate courses, and in most graduate ones, you will be quickly overwhelmed by the amount of reading. If you try to read every word of every book assigned, you will drown. You will not sleep. You will not eat. Instead, you will become one of the many Book Zombies—gaunt, sullen figures who haunt their department hallways. They appear as apparitions, weighed down by the mass of books loaded in their backpacks, creeping from class to class, unable to articulate a coherent thought.”
― Zachary Shore, Grad School Essentials: A Crash Course in Scholarly Skills