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Quotes About Interpretation

and people could only make sense of complicated matters through stories. Likewise
~ Neal Stephenson
Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?
~ Neal Stephenson
They can't tell what she's thinking. But they can tell that something's going on in her brain, that she's using parts of her brain right now that she didn't use when they were asking the nonsense questions.
~ Neal Stephenson
zanshin. Translating this concept into English is like translating "fuckface" into Nipponese, but it might translate into "emotional intensity" in football lingo.
~ Neal Stephenson
The average buyer of an OS is not really paying for, and is not especially interested in, the low-level code that allocates memory or writes bytes onto the disk. What we're really buying is a system of metaphors. And--much more important--what we're buying into is the underlying assumption that metaphors are a good way to deal with the world.
~ Neal Stephenson
A computer is a human being.
~ Neal Stephenson
One way to classify artists is by to whom they are accountable.
~ Neal Stephenson
What do you mean?" Yul asked.
~ Neal Stephenson
Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth, because everyone is creating what they see.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
History is supposed to be an accurate, and full, account of what actually happened. Politics is never about what actually happened. Politics is always one's point of view about what happened. History reveals, politics justifies. History uncovers; tells all. Politics covers; tells only one side. Politicians hate history truly written. And history, truly written, speaks not so well of politicians, either.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
right" is a term you use to designate something with which you agree. What you've missed will, therefore, appear at first to be "wrong.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Words are really the least effective communicator. They are most open to misinterpretation, most often misunderstood.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Words are the least reliable purveyor of Truth.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Nothing has any meaning save the meaning you give it.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Bak?? aç?s? alg?y? yarat?r, alg? deneyimi yarat?r. Bu alg?n?n deneyimi senin "gerçeÄŸini" yarat?r. GerçeÄŸin, bizzat deneyimlediÄŸindir. BaÅŸka her ÅŸey baÅŸkas?n?n deneyimleri ve sana söyledikleridir. Onlar?n seninle hiçbir ilgisi yoktur.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Now look at these two words: REACTIVE CREATIVE Notice they are the same word. Only the "C" has been moved! When you "C" things correctly, you become Creative, rather than Reactive.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it
~ Neale Donald Walsh
My perspective will create my perception
~ Neale Donald Walsh
I am a guy, I say. And I hate boys, she says. But a guy's different, I say. Maybe a little, she says.
~ Ned Vizzini
If the world is something you accept rather than interpret, then you're susceptible to the influence of charismatic idiots.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
But it doesn't make for good science. Science is not just about seeing, it's about measuring, preferably with something that's not your own eyes, which are inextricably conjoined with the baggage of your brain. That baggage is more often than not a satchel of preconceived ideas, post-conceived notions, and outright bias.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
We simply organized the information differently—that's all we did. And the New York Times was making a federal case out of it.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
First, get your facts straight. Then, distort them at your leisure.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
En otras palabras, después de las leyes de la física, lo demás es una opinión.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson