intuition’s primary role is to understand or apprehend the salient features of a case – in the form of a judgement – and a secondary (indirect) role as evidence for or against philosophical theories.

could be said for observation Intuitions are not wholly reliable, but also in the fact that we know so little about them

intuition is an expression of tacit knowledge.

a revival of the use of intuitions was prompted by Chomsky’s linguistics

a spontaneous judgement

aim to use intuitions as evidence

When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

I think great bosses hire great people. 'A' people hire 'A' people, but 'B' people hire 'C' people; they're worried they might be shown up... they're concerned that that person might make them look bad.

Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.

I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

Desperation makes men fearless.

If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.

I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.

Fencing is a game of living chess a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent and mind and body must work together at every moment.

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.

I had a sort of classic moment when a friend of mine rang up and said she'd just been to a funeral, and in the middle of the eulogy, this kid had taken out the phone and had a whole proper text conversation - while everyone was weeping!

We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter.

I've learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with.

The influence of mankind on climate is trivially true and numerically insignificant.

I'm not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, 'Let's all just get along.' I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.

But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

Unless they have disabilities to cope with, no family should get more from living on benefits than the average family gets from going out to work. No more open-ended chequebook.

I read a newspaper article in May 1984 which predicted that syringes would one day be a major cause of the transmission of HIV. It was what I had been waiting for - a project that had a lot of the things that I liked: problem-solving, product design, campaigning, and being a bit of a big mouth pain-in-the-bum.

I have an imagination that will go in any direction it is prodded. I pride myself on being able to become enthusiastic about anything: If you tell me to write a screenplay about cucumber farms, I'll swallow hard, and in 48 hours, I'll be in love with cucumber farms.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.