Even random differences in pay lead to the backward inference of differences in skill and hence to the development of unequal influence. It's an elem… - Leonard Mlodinow

Historians whose profession is to study the past, are as wary as scientists of the idea that events unfold in a manner that can be predicted. In fact, in a study of history the illusion of inevitability has serious consequences that it is one of the few things that both conservative and socialist historians can agree on.

Random events often come like the raisins in a box of cereal - in groups, streaks, and clusters. And although Fortune is fair in potentialities, she is not fair in outcomes.

The nasty thing about the availability bias is that it insidiously distorts our view of the world by distorting our perception of past events and our environment.