Hippopotamus/behavior

Famous quotes containing the words hippopotamus and/or behavior:

    “Wildly dissimilar
    yet actuated by the same fear,
    the hippopotamus and the wild-deer
    hide by the same river.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “To a first approximation, the intentional strategy consists of treating the object whose behavior you want to predict as a rational agent with beliefs and desires and other mental states exhibiting what Brentano and others call intentionality.”
    —Daniel Clement Dennett (b. 1942)