Nor do we gain much insight into his thought processes, psychological makeup or intellectual foundations.
But he was a thinker first, and for his thought there is no substitute for his essays.
The problem was his thought process: the lithium he was taking in small doses brought a slower speed to reality.
"He doesn't allow typical emotions that cloud our lives to affect his thought process, " says Spencer Vance, president of Albaugh Inc.
They're funny and strange, and because the man thinks aloud, by catching his speech patterns, Mr. Morrissey captures his thought process.
But I found his thought experiment a useful tool for my own.
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Though his thought can be slapdash and hasty, it is at least earnest, intensely argued, and occasionally thrilling in its leaps and transitions.
He recently spoke with the Penny Arcade Report and gave a rather interesting insight into his thought process behind scripting the story.
His thought experiment suggests that researchers in the small but potentially significant field of quantum computing should be turning their attentions to game theory.
Perhaps his thought was that if the international organization actually certified a violation (instead of whitewashing it), such a verdict would lead to proper punishment.
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Rather than trace the evolution of his thought, the curators have tried to unhusk the kernels of it, at least as revealed in his major post-1975 projects.
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Perry had barely finished his thought before being pounced on by critics, many within his own party and especially his opponents: How would a limping U.S. economy pay for that?
Sarkozy being Sarkozy, the message came out all wrong and tactless - but the direction of his thought was sound: that the old cosy contacts with France were holding Africa back.
Corretja, however, admits his stint with Murray in Barcelona has convinced him that one of the Scot's biggest strengths - the speed of his thought - is also a hindrance at times.
In his thought-provoking Fashion: A Philosophy, philosopher Lars Svendsen emphasises the cyclical aspect of fashion, stating that the business is now driven by the principle of making those cycles as short as possible.
In response, Professor Richard Dawkins, a high profile atheist, was asked to broadcast an alternative Thought for the Day , but his thought - that "we have been born and we are going to die, but before we die we have time to understand why we were born" - was broadcast in a different slot on the programme.
Lanier is a big thinker, and he asks his reader to follow the train of his thought, which varies pretty widely at times, though his main points include at turns arguing against the singularity (the eventuality that computers will be "smarter" than humans one day, most famously championed by Ray Kurzweil), discussing such futurists and their new religion, and of course -- taking on Web 2.0.
His first thought of his wife when he saw a picture of the pendant Rubinstein found, but he didn't recognize it as a piece that belonged to her.
Ramon Lobo and his parents thought it would be two or three years until his visa came through.
His subordinates thought him crazy, just as he had thought Burnside crazy when he was a subordinate, but he had his plan in mind.
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In 1997, he asked a free-market former minister, Alain Madelin, what his followers thought of him.
When he got a reminder about it, his solicitor thought they should contest it.
Foster's genius--the word is hardly too strong--is most apparent in his structural thought.
The government prosecutors had wanted 48 months in prison while Johnson and his lawyers thought 18 months was more appropriate.
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Five of the ten surgeons in his group thought that this new scheduling idea would only make their lives worse.
His students thought he was acting, being dramatic about an asinine comment just made by a boy in the back row.
His family thought he had gone to Portugal to start a business, but reported him missing when they could not contact him.
Perhaps Mr Kennedy and his publisher thought its truth to be self-evident.
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