Amos Tversky

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Amos Tversky is the figure to whom Wikiquote attributes this maxim. The entry explicitly lacks a source, so the page distinguishes familiar credit from a documented paper or speech.

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4 quotes we’ve traced to Amos Tversky

“He who sees the past as surprise-free is bound to have a future full of surprises”

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“It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place”

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“People predict very little and explain everything”

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“The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours”

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