Cognitive Shortcut Quotes

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.

Prejudices save time.

The name of God should no longer come from the mouth of man. This word that has so long been degraded by usage no longer means anything.... To use the word God is more than sloth, it is a refusal to think, a king of short cut, a hideous shorthand.

One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.

[He is] too used to borrowing brains instead of using his own.