Thanks for that source, a talk by frightfully brilliant Stanford mathematician and magician Persi Diaconis. It contains another cute anecdote:
> One of my most endearing memories of the great psychol- ogist of decision making under uncertainty, Amos Tversky, recalls his way of ordering in restaurants: “Barbara? What do I want?”
Here is the direct link if you don't care about my stuff (it has been featured on HN already)
http://statweb.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI/papers/thinking.pd...