He was sometimes considered the thinking man's Carson.
One of Carson's most promising rivals was Dick Cavett, who, Menand notes, "was sometimes considered the thinking man's Carson".
As a result, it is considered the thinking person's Criminal Minds.
After all, Petraeus was considered the thinking man's general, a warrior statesman with his eye on the White House.
Comedian and documented adulterer Kevin Hart is not-so-subtly used as the inspiration for "Kevin's Heart," a song that considers the thinking behind a man's unfaithfulness.
D'Souza was once considered the thinking man's conservative, with a sinecure at an influential think tank and books that — while controversial — were reviewed in high-brow publications.
Alan Turing, who helped develop the precursors of today's programmable computers during the second world war, began considering the possibility of thinking machines in the 1940s.
"I said something rather hurriedly, without considering the position, without thinking of the consequences and the trauma, the heartache and distress that the inference would have caused to those people who were already in a deep state of shock, who were distressed.
With that insight, she considered the methods Thinking Caps uses to teach students.
(In fact, another way to look at this commercial is to consider the dad thinking to himself: I used to fantasize about talking to my car in order to fly through the air, dive in the sea, fight off danger and save the world, and now that I'm actually doing it, it's only to find a damn restaurant).
