Daniel Dennett Quotes
We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.
Quotes to Explore
-
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
-
I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
-
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
-
I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
-
The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict with a high degree of precision.
-
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
-
But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
-
Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
-
I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
-
It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
-
Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.
-
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
-
In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
-
Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
-
America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims.
-
At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
-
I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
-
Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.
-
Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.
-
Ziggler is one of those guys who don't get all of the credit he deserves for being so good consistently for so long.
-
My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.
-
That was the first time I did coke. My body, it was electric. For the first time in my life I felt as if I had a real heart and a real body and I knew that there was this fire in me that could have lit up the entire universe. No book had ever made me feel that way. No human being had ever made me feel like that.
-
We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.
