Quotes About Comprehension

Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

It's not about the language, it's about the message

You Need To Gauge, To Engage.

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

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me

It's nice the know the computer understands the situation, but I would like to understand it too.

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.

Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

You can and must understand computers now.

Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.

C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.

The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

Death is something we really understand extremely well.

If you read a novel in more than two weeks you don't read the novel really.

Qué profundo es el oído! Piensa en lo que significa comprender algo que solamente has oído. ¡El carácter casi divino del oído! ¿No es por lo menos un fenómeno semidivino verte ante las inequidades más profundas de una existencia humana por el sencillo procedimiento de permanecer sentado en la oscuridad, escuchando lo que te dicen?

víctima, y a las víctimas trato de comprender.

Destiny had become perfectly understandable while everything unenigmatic, such as standing for the photograph in the third row back, with my one arm on the shoulder of Marshall Goldstein ("Children 39, 37. Grandchildren 8, 6") and my other on the shoulder of Stanley Wernikoff ("Children 39, 38. Grandchildren 5, 2, 8 mo."), had become inexplicable.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function," F. Scott Fitzgerald

As Dennis Covington has written, Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. 7-20