Daniel Trócoli

“An unbiased appreciation of uncertainty is a cornerstone of rationality—but it is not what people and organizations want. Extreme uncertainty is paralyzing under dangerous circumstances, and the admission that one is merely guessing is especially unacceptable when the stakes are high. Acting on pretended knowledge is often the preferred solution.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“We are a pattern that changes slowly but has stability and continuity, even though the stuff constituting the pattern changes quickly.”
― Ray Kurzweil, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

“Nisbett and Borgida summarize the results in a memorable sentence: Subjects’ unwillingness to deduce the particular from the general was matched only by their willingness to infer the general from the particular.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations. Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag. —Diane Ackerman”
― Ray Kurzweil, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed