Of course, not all things are less bad than we thought.

And yet for decades we thought that the people who were managing those firms were much smarter than we were.

And so we began looking into inventing thought controlled applications in a more complex frame than just control.

If Parfit is right, there is much less disagreement between apparently conflicting moral theories than we all thought.

Actually, it is much easier than I thought.

Or so we thought.

It is, again, worse than we thought, and, despite our failing models, we will gamble on knowing just what to do cut CO2 emissions dramatically.

But irregularities now seem more serious than initially thought.

Thus, we should also accept the need for much more conservative fiscal positioning than was thought necessary even three years ago.

They thought that we were more interested, as an industry, in profits, rather than progress, and that we filled the skies with smog and frankly, we were the enemy.

We thought we could build it, so we built it.

The one I got is really better than I thought!

Fertilizer and spraying were both more expensive than I thought.

And indeed, in the short time I've already been at TED, I see we're even closer than I thought we were before.

We spoke of an emerging consensus we thought we were there.

Yes, living online takes a little more thought than living offline.

Second, we thought that the depositors prone to panic would always be small depositors households and small firms rather than corporations or professional investors.

We are not weak, Mona, and the Arab revolutions have proved to us that we are stronger than we thought, and the heroines of the Arab revolutions don t need to be pointed out.

And I thought molecular weight sounded much less nerdy than molar mass.

I thought we weren't going to go there.

And in a place where we thought no life at all, we find more life, we think, and diversity and density than the tropical rainforest, which tells us that we don't know much about this planet at all.

It is not surprising that they are working longer than Keynes thought they would.

Russia thought it was less dependent than Ukraine, and decided to exercise that power.

Female voter turnout is generally thought to be less than the male voter turnout.

We thought we would be frisked and let go, but that didn't happen.

Since women were thought to have keener nerves than men, it was also believed that women were more emotional than men.

Yeah, thought so. So we ve all seen it, haven t we?

Have you ever thought about what a contradiction we are?

We thought that Europe believed in sharing its burdens equitably.

If we had thought that the rules of the sports we care about are merely arbitrary, rather than designed to call forth the virtues and the excellences that we think are worthy of admiring, we wouldn't care about the outcome of the game.

As Carl Sagan, another recently dead hero, put it, How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought!

Keynes reckoned that we would hear much more about this kind of unemployment in the future. But its emergence, he thought, was a cause for hope, rather than despair.

Full employment is better than high unemployment if it can be accomplished without inflation, Greenspan thought.

But the information collected continues to suggest that the problem is even bigger than previously thought.

PRINCETON Can central banks contain inflation? We once thought they could.

Some prisoners started praying because they thought we would be executed.

We thought it would just be our photographs, Khasan told TJournal.

And this was at a time when Mars was a hell of a lot more interesting than it is now. We thought there'd be animals there we knew there were plants there the colors change, right?

And we thought, rather than doing a traditional stack of apartments looking straight into a big boring block of cars, why don't we turn all the apartments into penthouses, put them on a podium of cars.

They thought we were journalists, but we innocently said that We are here because we want to watch the game .

And I thought, you know, we thought we were real bright, you know, sparks we've come up with this great idea, mobile health clinics widely distributed throughout sub Saharan Africa.

Size Most cometary nuclei are thought to be no more than about 10 miles (16 kilometers) across.

That's nine and a half thousand kilometers. We never thought that happened.

This is about protecting ourselves something that we have long thought impossible.

This is the natural history of heart disease, but it s really not natural because we found it could get better and better, and much more quickly than people had once thought.