Alan

Famous quotes containing the word alan:

    People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament.
    —A.P. (Sir Alan Patrick)

    Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
    Korean proverb, quoted in Alan L. Mackay, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977)

    Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.
    —Jerry Alan Fodor (b. 1935)