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"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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"My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste."
"There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process."
"See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented."
"In difficult moments it's sometimes a good idea to ask yourself what it is you most want to be doing and consider how it can be achieved. If it can't, move on to the second best thing."
"If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad."
"You must not make hasty decisions because they make you do what you would not have done normally."
"All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last."
"Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes."
"And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column."
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"Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed."
"I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding.""
"There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument."
"Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places."
"I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing."
"An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived."
"Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself."
"Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples."
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