The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Michael Lewis
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The way the creative process works is that you first say something, and later, sometimes years later, you understand what you said.”
“The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours”
“We study natural stupidity instead of artificial intelligence.”
“Amos was not merely an optimist. He willed himself to be an optimist because he had decided pessimism was stupid. "When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice," Amos liked to say. "Once when you worry about it and the second time when it happens.”
“Someone once said that education was knowing what to do when you don’t know,” said”
“good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said.”
“If you want to weaken some stereotype, eliminate the classification.”
“When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice,' Amos liked to say. 'Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.”
“It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.”
“Life is a book. The fact that it was a short book doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good book. It was a very good book.”
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