“My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.” — John Searle, Minds, Brains and Programs
Tag: understanding
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“Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.” — Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
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“Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing; settled in the imagination, but never arriving at the understanding, there to obtain the tincture of reason.” — Ben Jonson, Timber: or, Discoveries made upon men and matter
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“A sentence have to be screwed pretty bad
Before they gets to where you doesn’t knows
The meaning what it must have meant to had.” — Clive James, Windows Is Shutting Down
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“What you don’t understand you can make mean anything.” — Chuck Palahniuk
“What you don’t understand you can make mean anything.” — Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
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“It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits — like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding — inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, a Roosevelt can feel themselves to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, a Blake. Understanding is for ever unattainable. Therein lies the inevitability of failure in embarking upon its quest, which is none the less the only one worthy of serious attention.” — Malcolm Muggeridge, Muggeridge Through the Microphone
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“To understand is to marvel.” — Larkin Kerwin, “The Role of Canadian Science,” Alan B. Plaunt Memorial Lecture (1985)
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” — Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
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