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.

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.

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

a spontaneous judgement

aim to use intuitions as evidence

When my kids become wild and unruly I use a nice safe playpen. When theyre finished I climb out.

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

My favorite food is Ramen.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

What people want out of their politicians is exactly the same thing that I want - somebody who is approachable, willing to work, and tells me the truth as they see it.

Like all writers my greatest inspiration my ultimate muse is a deadline.

The path through trouble is always made a step at a time, a breath at a time, a day at a time.

Where there's a will there's a way

The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.

I see an insidious problem in the marketing of weddings as 'the happiest day of your life.' The pressure that is placed upon this event to be the alpha and omega of your entire existence makes it, I think, into a kind of nuptial New Year's Eve, and we all know how that usually turns out.

When you see someone who needs power and control and will not stop until they get it youre actually seeing someone who is deeply afraid of life. Fearful people can only have things their way.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.

We feel closer to the drawings on the walls of Chauvet than the painting of, say, an Egyptian mural. These artists are not remote ancestors; they are brothers. They saw like us; they drew like us. We wear essentially the same clothes against the cold.

How we see ourselves determines how we see the world.

Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

It looks better when you do your own stunts, because seeing somebody's face when they're doing them is fun for the audience.

Let's say, 100 years ago, I'm not sure how many people had to empty out their relatives' homes; they just stayed in the same house, because they lived there. Nowadays, almost everyone, at least once in their life, somehow, has to deal with this experience.

Refusing to idealize, the Surrealists awakened a sensitivity to the arbitrary and the unusual.

There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them - NEOs: near Earth objects. And our biggest goal is to try to catalogue them, so we know in advance if one is going to put us at risk.