"Correlation and causation are two quite different words, and the innumerate are more prone to mistake them than most."

"If we’re not keenly aware of the choices we’re making, we’re not likely to work for better ones."

"Together the, two ingredients—a perceived incongruity with a point and an appropriate emotional climate—seem to be bo…"

"The necessity of this psychic stepping back (or up) to the metalevel is probably what is meant when people say that a…"

"Appreciating humor—even recognizing it—requires human skills of the highest order (level?); no computer comes close t…"

"Humor, since it depends on so many emotional, social, and intellectual facets of human beings, is particularly immune…"

"All art, in fact, has these two aspects: its content and its frame (or setting), which sets it apart from nonart and …"

"Innumerate people characteristically have a strong tendency to personalize—to be misled by their own experiences, or …"

"A tendency to drastically underestimate the frequency of coincidences is a prime characteristic of innumerates, who g…"

"There is no such thing as free lunch, and even if there were, there’d be no guarantee against indigestion."