Quotes About Interpretation

By changing the context in which two things are compared, you submerge certain features and force others to the surface. "It

Los sujetos no elegían entre cosas. Elegían entre descripciones de cosas.

The trick was not simply to write the code that turned information into pictures but to find the best pictures to draw—shapes and colors that led the mind to meaning.

There was, for starters, the tendency of everyone who actually played the game to generalize wildly from his own experience. People always thought their own experience was typical when it wasn't.

When someone says something, don't ask yourself if it is true. Ask what it might be true of." That was his intellectual instinct, his natural first step to the mental hoop: to take whatever someone had just said to him and try not to tear it down but to make sense of it.

Historical Interpretation: Judgment Under Uncertainty," Amos had called it. With a flick of the wrist, he showed a roomful of professional historians just how much of human experience could be reexamined in a fresh, new way, if seen through the lens he had created with Danny.

Cajun coach for a good thirty minutes, as he listened to the other coaches, only in Coach O's case there was a twist: Michael couldn't understand

There will no longer be truth and falsehood. There will just be stories, with two sides to them.

Cambiando el contexto en que se comparan dos cosas se ocultan ciertos rasgos y emergen otros a la superficie

What constitutes a gain or a loss depends on the representation of the problem and on the context in which it arises

The mind was more like a coping mechanism than it was a perfectly designed tool. "The brain appears to be programmed, loosely speaking, to provide as much certainty as it can," he once said, in a talk to a group of Wall Street executives. "It is apparently designed to make the best possible case for a given interpretation rather than to represent all the uncertainty about a given situation.

The production of a compelling scenario is likely to constrain future thinking," wrote Danny and Amos. "There is much evidence showing that, once an uncertain situation has been perceived or interpreted in a particular fashion, it is quite difficult to view it in any other way.

A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said.

People said some strange things. For

It is amazing how dull history books are, given how much of what's in them must be invented." What

to find the phenomenon and then explain it in a way that applies to other situations

he needed them to translate his extraordinary ambition into the ordinary language understood by corporate America.

The smaller the sample size, the more likely that it is unrepresentative of the wider population...people can be taught the correct rule, perhaps even with little difficulty. The point remains that people do not follow the correct rule, when left to their own devices.

In the stories we tell ourselves, we tell ourselves.

Creators are joyful and positive. Creators look at "what is" and "what can be" instead of "what is not." Instead of excluding possibilities, creators include all possibilities, both real and imagined. They choose to interpret their own world and do not rely upon the interpretations of others. And most importantly, creators are creative because they believe they are creative.

That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven't seen nobody, you're actually saying that you have seen somebody.

Gods are but metaphors. said Orland Frank. As metaphors they might be very acceptable - but they should never be allowed to become beings in their own right.

Serwde only half understood what Corum was saying, but he listened politely until Corum stopped

the first rule of Moritz Haupt for interpreting the classics,—'Man soll nicht übersetzen.' ['Do not translate':