The toothless crone would force-feed us fondant fancies whilst regaling us with her back-of-a-matchbox philosophies.
Makiya threw himself into the Palestinian cause, signed on as a Marxist and then beat a long path back to a philosophy of democracy and human rights.
The philosophy, he explains, "fits on the back of a business card.
This intervention drew its inspiration from a philosophy of empowerment.
Although formal mathematical theories about information only emerged in the 20th century, and one has to be careful not to interpret the Greek notion of a number in any modern sense, the idea that information was essentially a mathematical notion, dates back to classical philosophy: the form of an entity was conceived as a structure or pattern that could be described in terms of numbers.
He represents a direct line back to the philosophy of Elizabeth David - French provincial cooking, based on first principles, free of unnecessary adornment - which is being carried on by the likes of Henry Harris at Racine, his brother Matthew at Bibendum, Bruce Poole at Chez Bruce and Jeremy Lee at the Blueprint Cafe.
This line of thought can be traced back to the philosophy of David Hume, who famously asserted that 'Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions' (Hume 1978, 415).
Robert Bernasconi has traced this idea back to the philosophy of Johann Gottfried von Herder who wrote Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Humankind (1784).
He said he fell back on the philosophy of the Serenity Prayer from his Christian upbringing, to change the things he could, accept the things he could not and have the wisdom to know the difference.
A philosophy of composition?
