Maria Konnikova

“Humans are startlingly bad at detecting fraud. Even when we're on the lookout for signs of deception, studies show, our accuracy is hardly better than chance.”

“Fraud really thrives in moments of great social change and transition. We're in the midst of a technological revolution. That gives con artists huge opportunities. People lose their frame of reference for what can and can't be real.”

“Where anger can be seen as a relative positive in a man, it is hardly ever perceived as anything other than a negative in a woman.”

“If you are lucky enough to never experience any sort of adversity, we won't know how resilient you are. It's only when you're faced with obstacles, stress, and other environmental threats that resilience, or the lack of it, emerges: Do you succumb or do you surmount?”

“Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.”