Quotes About Interpretation

We started to collect more and more of these words and concepts, and began to realize what an arbitrarily selective work the Oxford English Dictionary is. It simply doesn't recognize huge wodges of human experience.

Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.

At intervals along the walls the tiles gave way to large mosaics—simple angular patterns in bright colors. Trillian stopped and studied one of them but could not interpret any sense in them. She called to Zaphod. "Hey, have you any idea what these strange symbols are?" "I think they're just strange symbols of some kind," said Zaphod, hardly glancing back. Trillian shrugged and hurried after him.

En este punto vale la pena recordar las teorías a las que había llegado Ford en su primer encuentro con los seres humanos para explicar su extraña costumbre de afirmar y reafirmar de continuo lo claro y evidente, como «Hace buen día», «Es usted muy alto», o «Así que ya está, vamos a morir».

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.

Non puoi vedere quel che vedo io perché vedi quel che vedi. Non puoi sapere quel che so io perché sai quel che sai. Quel che io vedo e so non si può aggiungere a quel che vedi e sai tu, perché le due cose non sono dello stesso tipo. Né quel che che vedo e do io può sostituire quel che vedi e sai tu, perché questo significherebbe sostituire te stesso.

What did "psychosassic" mean? It was his own word and he vigorously denied that it meant anything at all.

They were not the same eyes with which he had last looked at this particular scene, and the brain which interpreted the images the eyes resolved was not the same brain. There had been no surgery involved, just he continual wrenching of experience.

I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.

It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in 'It's a nice day,' or 'You're very tall,' or 'So this is it, we're going to die.' His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably seized up.

It's translating for you. It's a Babel fish. Look it up in the book if you like.

The 'guide' is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

What's he saying?" asked Trillian. "Nothing," said Zaphod, "he just phoned to wash his head at us.

The thing that used to worry him most was the fact that people always used to ask him what he was looking so worried

What's this fish doing in my ear?" "It's translating for you. It's a Babel fish. Look it up in the book if you like.

Marvin flashed her an electronic look.

It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.

First we have to call it something which says it's our, not yours, then we set about finding some way of proving it's not what you said it is, but something we say it is.

They were not the same eyes with which he had last looked out at this particular scene, and the brain which interpreted the images the eyes resolved was not the same brain. There had been no surgery involved, just the continual wrenching of experience.

Just as Einstein observed that time was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in restaurants.

Bir ÅŸeyi görmen onun orada olduÄŸu anlam?na gelmez. Ayn? ÅŸekilde bir ÅŸeyi görmemen de onun orada olmad??? anlam?na gelmez. Her ÅŸey alg?lar?n?n senin dikkatini nereye yönelttiÄŸine baÄŸl?d?r.

Just as Einstein observed that time was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.

Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda, will be. Other languages don't work that way. French? Dieu! Misplace a single le or la and an idea vaporizes into a sonic puff. English is flexible: you can jam it into a Cuisinart for an hour, remove it, and meaning will still emerge.

I don't understand beauty.