Quotes from Daniel Kahneman's books, and about them
Thinking, Fast and Slow on Jabberwocky: “A skilled reader who sees it for the first time will be able to read the opening stanza of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" with perfect rhythm and intonation, as well as pleasure: 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...”
Thinking, Fast and Slow on The Hedgehog and the Fox: “He uses the terminology from Isaiah Berlin's essay on Tolstoy, "The Hedgehog and the Fox." Hedgehogs "know one big thing" and have a theory about the world.”
Thinking, Fast and Slow on Free to Choose: “Milton Friedman, the leading figure in that school, expressed this view in the title of one of his popular books: Free to Choose.”
Thinking, Fast and Slow on Stumbling on Happiness: “The psychologist Daniel Gilbert, widely known as the author of Stumbling on Happiness, once wrote an essay, titled "How Mental Systems Believe," in which he developed a theory of believing and unbelieving.”
Thinking, Fast and Slow on In Search of Excellence: “The average profitability of the companies identified in the famous In Search of Excellence dropped sharply as well within a short time.”
Thinking, Fast and Slow on Built to Last: “...Porras's Built to Last. (Fragment from the same halo-effect passage discussing business bestsellers alongside In Search of Excellence; the full sentence names Jerry Porras's co-authored book directly.)”
Thinking, Fast and Slow on Predictably Irrational: “Irrational is a strong word: The view of the mind that Dan Ariely has presented in Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (New York: Harper, 2008) is not much different from mine, but we differ in our use of the term. (Likely an endnote aside rather than continuous body narrative, but it substantively compares…”