John Searle Quotes

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

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• There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Decision

• Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Man
  • Respect

• I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • History
  • Simple

• I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Simple
  • Boy
  • Bronx

• The chef can be very innovative, but the decision is made by the customer.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Decision
  • Customer
  • Chef

• The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Simple
  • Act
  • Analysis

• It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Passion
  • Decision
  • Debate

• Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Power
  • Decision
  • Perspective

• Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • World
  • Simple
  • Beginning

• The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Past

• No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Government
  • Decision
  • Moment

• I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Decision
  • Thought
  • I Can

• We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Good
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • May
  • History
  • Future

• I can tell you that when you're counting every penny, knowing that you are a single bad decision away from bankruptcy, you inevitably lose focus on what really matters for your business.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Single

• There's nothing like simple spicy egg bhurji.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Simple
  • Nothing
  • Egg

• I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Abortion

• Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Why
  • Change
  • Simple

• The business model - where books can be returned, and where a 50% sell-through is considered acceptable - is archaic and wasteful. Writers get small royalties, little say in how their books are marketed and sold, and simple things like cover and title approval are unheard of unless you're a huge bestseller.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Business
  • Small
  • Simple

• Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

  

  Brian Sandoval
  • Life
  • American
  • Career

• The idea that I can provide for my mother and play at the highest level in the world for football and compete against the best guys in the world - it's a very exciting idea.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • World
  • Mother
  • Football

• Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Jesus

• I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Tax
  • Unfair
  • Immoral

• In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

  

  John Searle
  • Simple
  • Decision