Quotes About Interpretation

art is a meditation upon external reality rather than a representation of external reality

you get Kandinsky, a bad mother, all them pick-up-sticks pictures...

The combinatory agility of words," he wrote in "Not-Knowing," "the exponential generation of meaning once they're allowed to go to bed together, allows the writer to surprise himself, makes art possible, reveals how much of Being we haven't yet encountered.

I noticed that he was an Irish setter, rust-colored. He noticed that I was a Welsh sculptor, buff-colored (no, really, what did he notice? how does he think?) I reflected that he was probably a nice dog from a good home (bourgeois dog) but with certain unfortunate habits like jumping on people from high windows (rationalization: he is a member of the television generation and thus -)

The aim of interpretation is not agreement but understanding

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

The Shark and the Flipper need to have the ability to recognize the signs, interpret them correctly, and then act without hesitation.

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

To see how differently folks experience a work of fiction, check their comments on Goodreads. Are those people all reading the same novel?

You'd think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn't. He mostly tells stories, and He rarely stops the story to say what the point is. He just lets the characters and conflict hang in the air like smoke.

Anybody who wants to get their way says that Jesus supports their view. But that isn't Jesus' fault.

What we think we are saying to our customers and what our customers actually hear are two different things.

If you quote a poem in a sermon today, some people think you are being mushy, but if you quoted one back in the day, people would have felt you were getting to the core of an idea, to the real, whole truth of it.

The monks) approach was far less narcissistic and our tends to be. Their goal when reading Scripture was to see Christ in every verse, and not a mirror image of themselves.

What we think we are saying to our customers and what our customers actually hear are two different things. And customers make buying decisions not based on what we say but on what they hear.

When a Judge personality is religious, they'll use the Bible to gain control of others. The Bible becomes a book of rules they use to prove they are right rather than a book that introduces people to God.

Bing Bing Bong Bong Bing (This is a quote)

Creative interpretation of reality resulting from wishful thinking

That's probably because they said a lot of other things, as well.

Henry James escribió Los papeles de Aspern

Detach language from meaning, and the world was yours.

Yes, but I don't think it was deliberate. He just didn't get it, that the question was ambiguous and didn't mean that her brother had sex with them." "She did, though?" Brunetti nodded again. "She's much brighter than he is." "Women usually are," Paola said

To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole;