... give people more information and follow your hunch TED.

And just because of someone's hunch, I wasn't going to give it up.

News accounts depict hordes of emotional people trading on hunch and superstition. That looks a lot more like reality than all the talk of impending financial singularity.

But in fact, if you go back and look at the historical record, it turns out that a lot of important ideas have very long incubation periods I call this the slow hunch.

My hunch is that the court s well meaning officials were too influenced by the South African Peace and Reconciliation Commission, a model touted in law schools as the desired alternative to retributive justice.

We've heard a lot recently about hunch and instinct and blink like sudden moments of clarity, but in fact, a lot of great ideas linger on, sometimes for decades, in the back of people's minds.

I mean, here you have these guys who basically thought they were just following this hunch, this little passion that had developed, then they thought they were fighting the Cold War, and then it turns out they're just helping somebody find a soy latte.

They run some more of the numbers, and at the end of about three or four weeks, turns out they have mapped the exact trajectory of this satellite around the Earth, just from listening to this one little signal, going off on this little side hunch that they'd been inspired to do over lunch one morning.