Quotes About Comprehension

From working on heavily researched films such as 'Four Lions' and 'In the Loop,' I knew that research in itself is nothing and it's everything.

I feel like I'm good with girls. I understand them and am good at loving them. I've always felt like that's been natural for me.

A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.

I sometimes never really realize what lyrics are saying.

There's a lot that machine learning can't do that humans can do very, very well.

Meowing is not counted here, since cats rarely seem to meow at each other. That type of vocalization is usually a pidgin language used for getting human's attention: the cat equivalent of Just talk to them clearly and loudly and they'll get what you mean sooner or later.

For me, to see is to read. It has always been that way.

Lily was no great reader. She could not tell b from d and all the letters quivered on the page as soon as they felt the brush of her gaze; but when her mother read aloud in her gentle voice, the lines settled and she found she could follow the thread after all, mouthing the words silently in time. Sometimes

Do not carve on stone or wood, He was honest or He was good. Write in smoke on a passing breeze Seven words… and the words are these, Telling all that a volume could, He lived, he laughed and… he understood.

One must become a book before one can know what is inside it.

If you could stretch a given minute, what would you find between its unstuck components? Probably some kind of astral madness. A bleak comprehension of the final size of things.

Reality doesn't happen until you analyze the dots.

What do children know? They know who they are, she said, in ways we can't know and they can't tell us.

Reality doesn't happen until you analyze the dots

Creating a complete picture of a company financial health, by looking at periodic financial statements, is like turning a hamburger into a cow

Forget the complaints against complexity; instead, complain about confusion.

The aim of interpretation is not agreement but understanding

When I was sixteen I read ten books a week: E.E. Cummings, William Faulkner, Henry James, Hart Crane, John Steinbeck. I thought I progressed in literature by reading faster and faster--but reading more is reading less. I learned to slow down.

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

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

The more simple and predictable the communication, the easier it is for the brain to digest.

The more simple and predictable the communication, the easier it is for the brain to digest. Story helps because it is a sense-making mechanism.

El cerebro no sabe cómo procesar la información. Cuanto más sencilla y previsible es la comunicación, más fácilmente la procesa el cerebro. Las historias ayudan porque una historia es un mecanismo de creación de sentido. En esencia, las fórmulas basadas en el concepto de historia lo que hacen es ordenarlo todo de manera que el cerebro no tenga que esforzarse para comprender lo que está pasando.»

Why? Because the human brain, no matter what region of the world it comes from, is drawn toward clarity and away from confusion.