He thought world demand for computers would number only a dozen or so per year, yet IBM sold thousands of 360s.
If this was the best the Portuguese have to offer the world, I thought, the world is lucky to have it.
When that began to slide, I thought the world was going out just as I was getting in.
When I first heard of people exchanging real money for virtual goods, I thought the world had gone mad.
Who would've thought the world's most compact 4.7-inch smartphone could keep you powered up for an eye-opening all-day battery performance?
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"I thought the world just spins, and the clock just ticks, and things happen for no particular reason, " Kelly said.
"We gathered he had a doomsday attitude ... family and friends have indicated he thought the world was going to end at some point, " West said.
However that wouldn't have held back the European Central Bank from cutting rates if it had really thought the world was plunging into recession and dragging Europe with it.
Recently, over dinner with a young French winemaker who had worked in both New Zealand and Bordeaux, our discussion took us onto the subject of where we thought the world's greatest wines were produced.
In short, Sir Patrick dedicated his life to talking about astronomy at any opportunity - not out of a desire to make a name for himself or to further an agenda, but because he thought the world would be a better place if he did so.
"We've not thought beyond the World Cup, " insists the 5ft 10in, 14-stone Bristol forward.
Memphians couldn't care less what the rest of the world thought of the performer.
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My Standard Poodle, Truman, thought that the world had ended, and collapsed to the kitchen floor in a twitching heap.
It changed the way we all thought about our world of work and how we prepared for our adult work lives.
That should be a comforting thought for the world's flummoxed financial regulators.
That is time when his mind will not have had much in it - apart from the thought of a world title fight.
And this is why I turned bullish on the stock market in late 2008 when everybody thought the financial world was coming to an end.
Plato believed that the first four corresponded to the elements of which the Greeks thought the material world was composed: fire, air, water and earth.
It reflected the way many of us thought about the world.
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Earlier this year, the Humanist Society Scotland launched an alternative Thought For The World podcast for those atheists who switch off the radio at 0745.
Leaders in the ancient world thought and made decisions differently.
The world thought Apple (in Model-T terms) was entering 1925.
In the 1979 revolution in Iran, the world thought it had found a liberating hero when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini came out of exile in France to lead that nation.
Add the magic of Hollywood and later the sound of the Beach Boys' pop and cool West Coast jazz: no wonder the world thought California to be especially blessed.
They saw economic turmoil around the world and thought the century was theirs to dominate.
The Perceptive Radio, produced by the corporation's Future Media North Lab, is thought to be a world first.
He looked at the Kickstarters of the world and thought there might be some application to energy innovation as well.
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Google also thought big by recruiting world-class scientists and engineers, including Sebastian Thrun, Chris Urmson and Astro Teller.
He again broke ground with a namesake prize (and other awards) for work that promotes understanding of religious thought in the secular world (hardly a more important topic today, eh?).
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