Daniel Kahneman on money and happiness

Money doesn't buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

~ Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman on hindsight bias

The core of hindsight bias is that we believe we understand the past, which implies the future should also be knowable; but in fact we understand the past less than we believe we do – compelling narratives foster an illusion of inevitability; but no such story can include the myriad of events that would have caused a different outcome.

~ Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman on the spreading falsehoods

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.  Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

~ Daniel Kahneman