In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.
The most important thing for me was talking to players like Xavi, Andres Iniesta and Javier Mascherano – they would tell me about the life away from football. All I wanted to do was play football but they explained how important everything is away, how you prepare and live your life.
People always ask you, ‘Are you like brother and sister? Are you like a married couple?’ It’s really original and it can’t really be explained.
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
I became a starter in Portland, and then I lost my spot, but for what reason? It wasn’t explained to me. I thought it was unfair.
I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.
In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and explained that her robot had a defective motor. I said, ‘Send it back. We’ll send you a new one.’ She said, ‘No – I’m not sending you Rosie.’
Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.
The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging.
I won two Golden Globes, and there was a long, long period in between the wins. That might be explained by the fact that when I first won the award, for ‘3rd Rock on the Sun,’ I satirically compared aliens on the show to the Foreign Press Association. And they did not take that well.
I was born in ’82 and there were these bizarre wars, explained through mass media in ways that made no sense. I remember watching the Gulf War through night vision. That was sold and propagated as a showbusiness moment for the news.
I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
People’s lives really do turn out differently. And it certainly can’t be explained by how intelligent you remember them being when they were sitting next to you in organic chemistry class.
The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.
Your first love is your first love. It cannot be analysed, explained, nor forgotten.
