Editing Amos Tversky (section)

==Personality and characteristics==
Kahneman has said "Amos was the freest person I have known, and he was able to be free because he was also one of the most disciplined."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2002/kahneman/biographical/|title=The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2002}}</ref>

[[Persi Diaconis]], a professor of mathematics at Stanford, has said "You were happy being in his presence. There was a light shining out of him."<ref name="news.stanford.edu"/>

[[Gerhard Casper]], President of Stanford University, said Tversky "maintained the highest standards of professional ethics", and "His dedication to Stanford and its institutions of faculty governance was exemplary."<ref name="news.stanford.edu"/>

Whilst being very collaborative, Tversky also had a lifelong habit of working alone at night while others slept.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2002/kahneman/biographical/|title=The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2002}}</ref>

In intellectual debate Tversky "wanted to crush the opposition".<ref>Kahnemnan, quoted in Michael Lewis, "The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World". Penguin, 2016 (ISBN 9780141983035)</ref><ref>Tversky..." didn't have Danny's feeling that we should all think together and work together. He thought "F*** You". [[Walter Mischel]], quoted in Michael Lewis, "The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World". Penguin, 2016 (ISBN 9780141983035)</ref>

Tversky believed that humans live under uncertainty, in a probabilistic universe.<ref>"''People live under uncertainty whether they like it or not..... Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic Universe. In this match, surprises are expected.''" Notes made by Tversky for a scientific paper. Michael Lewis. "The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World". Penguin, 2016 (ISBN 9780141983035).</ref>