Quotes About Experience

It will be interesting to have chance to view and the places from rich and poor to see what happens... if somebody knows the chance to do it it's smaller than before.

This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.

In America, Christmas is the king of all holidays. To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience.

Ive not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.

We cannot humanize the fact that the story was penned to have the eternal God, Who Himself knows no beginning nor is in need of one, choose to experience a beginning. That is genius in and of itself.

It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.

Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be efficient?

There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory or communication.

Most angelic communications are felt or heard rather than seen.

I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.

An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.

The pain of one human being to another cannot be translated through words and for that I am certain, it will never be truly experienced again.

Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

I'm not a computer guy. I have my Smith Corona. I would know nothing about computers.

Ive never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure theres enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures.

We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.

Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.

User interface is customer service for the computer.

I've never really acquired any facility for working on the computer, though one day I think I would like to. My generation just barely missed it, which I don't think is a good thing or a bad thing.

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.