Matthew Mellon quotes

Matthew Mellon quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Intuition is the number one tool in the toolbox.”
-- Matthew Mellon

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“Whether we had a (good) moral intuition more developed, we would be as much morally disgusted by the rapacity of those who try to benefit from, and monopolize (or secure or corner), having no consideration (regardless or irrespective of) for others ("autrui", Fr.), than we physically are by a sickening (or nauseating) smell.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 43), 1937.
“Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.”
“Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.”
“Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.”
“The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.”
“The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.”
“Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.”
“I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.”

Source : "Alan Tudyk Talks TUCKER & DALE VS. EVIL, ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, SUBURGATORY, and Working With Joss Whedon". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2011.
“I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.”

Source : "LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?". www.wired.com. January 16, 2006.
“The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.”

Source : "Simple downloads, complex change" by Michael Coren, www.cnn.com. August 23, 2004.

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