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Thomas Nagel Quotes

«The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.»
Author: Thomas Nagel
«Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.»
Author: Thomas Nagel
«Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.»
Author: Thomas Nagel
«There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.»
Author: Thomas Nagel
«We will soon start moving toward a release mindset. That's new for the cable industry. There'll be a new release every few months. This will be a learning process.»
Author: Thomas Nagel
«We don't think of this as cable operators pushing a cell phone service. We want to leverage what Sprint has outside the home and create services and features so that consumers can take whatever media they have with them.»
Author: Thomas Nagel
«I'm actually surprised how well we've done. We've made more progress in the first 100 days of this one than any other joint venture I've been involved in.»
Author: Thomas Nagel