mind

"I think of him as well intentioned, poorly informed, high status idiot."

"All thinking men are atheists."

"Quinn ignored the admonition with a verve bordering, Ethan thought, on the anti-social."

"Human consciousness isn’t optimized for anything, except maybe helping feral hominids survive in the wild."

"Remember that financial intelligence is the mental process via which we solve our financial problems."

"I read Tennyson for myself, learning by heart the greater part of the original volumes and thinking, as I still think, that for subtle workmanship no one had at all approached the same perfection sinc…"

"We can't do a deal in which some off the goals are unattainable. Brazil does not owe the world anything when it comes to environmental protection."

"In indolent vacuity of thought."

"I think is a perfect example of an artificial construct -- someone with a decent voice and a very marketable image, that producers and business people turned into a pop star. Unfortunately, I think it…"

"Perhaps you will not only have some appreciation of this culture; it is even possible that you may want to join in the greatest adventure that the human mind has ever begun."

":You said it in 2005, I think is correct?"

"To this end I suggest we need to look to an idea deeply rooted in Christian life and thought. The idea of the Common Good. The Common Good is concerned with personal and mutual flourishing in terms of…"

"I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicte…"

"You want me to tell you what my husband thinks? My husband is not the secretary of state, I am. You ask my opinion. I will tell you my opinion; I'm not going to channel my husband."

"If I cared about what you thought, I'd be writing for National Geographic or something."

"...the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up."

"Kim, KIM! Why don't you like me? You think I'm ugly don't you? No you think I'm ugly"

"A programming language is for thinking of programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of."

"I think just giving a little present to someone who might be a little close-minded or stubborn about being green. Last year in all of my gifts I gave an environmentally-friendly light bulb. I thought …"

"But then we assume on our paper that nobody thinks. Which is all right. But where we're wrong—and of course I'm not really including myself but mean the top boys—is in thinking that our readers, dumb …"