Quotes About Interpretation

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

Many works would be senseless, real junk, but for the fact that, being art, they are exhibited because they have a message of almost religious importance, interpreting man and his world - yes, perhaps even as junk.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

but if you do not even understand what words say how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?

if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Perception determines our reality, our life experience, our sub conscious programming, our physical and mental health. Perception may control our lives, but we control perception. Perception is interpretation by the brain. It can be of the sub conscious or conscious. While conscious, we determine our perception.

What does this mean?" What has to be explained so that my listeners will understand the passage? Does the biblical writer explain his statements or define his terms? Does he assume that the original readers understood him and needed no explanation? Are there concepts, terms, or connections that modern listeners might not understand that you need to explain to them?

Reality is not the same to the doer as it is to the sayer

When the Bible says black, I say white. When it says good, I say evil. When it says Behold, Jehovah is a God of Light, I say, Behold, He is the Lord of dark places, for his children gnash their teeth and cry unto him and are not heard.

Personally, I'd like to see the word genre taken out back and shot, a bullet in the back of its head, if it's going to be so overloaded with meanings it's just gibberish skewed to self-serving doublethink.

For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck?

Cause what do groanhuffs know? All's they've done is heard our tales and passed em along in a game of Chinese Whispers, getting em all mixed up, like.

Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave room for the reader's imagination and intellect.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

For me, the walk of the character is always the first part that I must define for myself.

I see all things in this world as more beautiful than I, and I spin the details of their atoms in every paragraph and brushstroke.

He practiced the code of swift reprisal that was almost universally practiced by the Indians themselves: Failure to strike back, he understood, would only be interpreted as weakness and inevitably lead to an even bolder assault.

understood what happened when men under extreme duress were given the latitude to express their dissatisfactions unchecked—how quickly a wrong, real or imagined, could magnify in men's minds, how a single misconstrued incident or comment could make its way through the ranks.

When the Prophet says "brother," we should interpret this as universal brotherhood, which includes Muslims and non-Muslims.

every word, every sentence, has three possible meanings: what the speaker intends it to mean, what the hearer understands it to mean, and what it is commonly understood to mean.