logic is usually the best way to succeed in an argument, but if you want to succeed in life it is not necessarily all that useful; (Location 176)

if we allow the world to be run by logical people, we will only discover logical things. But in real life, most things aren’t logical – they are psycho-logical. (Location 207)

to reach intelligent answers, you often need to ask really dumb questions. (Location 215)

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Notice that Winston Churchill did not urge us to fight the Second World War ‘in order to regain access to key export markets’. (Location 292)

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In theory, you can’t be too logical, but in practice, you can. (Location 310)

Some scientists believe that driverless cars will not work unless they learn to be irrational. If such cars stop reliably whenever a pedestrian appears in front of them, pedestrian crossings will be unnecessary and jaywalkers will be able to march into the road, forcing the driverless car to stop suddenly, at great discomfort to its occupants. To prevent this, driverless cars may have to learn to be ‘angry’, and to occasionally maliciously fail to stop in time and strike the pedestrian on the shins. If you are wholly predictable, people learn to hack you. (Location 347)

Charlie Munger once said, ‘If economics isn’t behavioural, I don’t know what the hell is.’ (Location 412)

it is perfectly possible to be both rational and wrong. (Location 473)