Amgaa

“cognitive illusions are difficult to overcome. That is why education of the public is doomed to fail and paternalistic strategies to maneuver people into doing the “right” things are the only viable alternative.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer, Risk Savvy: How To Make Good Decisions

“No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren’t designed to produce them, if we don’t speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.”
― Meadows. Donella, Thinking in Systems: A Primer

“In Hong Kong, some high-rises are missing all floor numbers with 4, such as 4, 14, 24, 34, and all of the 40s. That’s why Hong Kong elevators are the fastest in the world: They arrive quickly at floor 50.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer, Risk Savvy: How To Make Good Decisions

“we humans constantly fool ourselves by constructing flimsy accounts of the past and believing they are true.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow