Quotes About Comprehension

It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.

Lumea trebuie s-o p?trunzi cu mintea, nu s? o ba?i cu picioarele! Prostul poate s? mearg? ?i-n cap, c? tot nu-i intr? nimic în el... Doar m?r?cini...

He wasn't looking at her, was at such an oblique angle to her that his face was little more than a sliver, but she knew him at once. "It was like reading," she would try to explain later, and she wasn't talking about phonics. She didn't break him into syllables—shoulders, hair, shirt collar, hand, nose, cheekbone—and put him back together again; she didn't sound him out. He was a language she knew, and it was whole-word recognition: Will.

Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

Thor was watching them. 'Gretchen says what we both think,' Thor said quietly.

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.

Knowing isn't understanding

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." —DORIS LESSING Ordinary

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." —DORIS LESSING

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

whatever is not thus explained is to be taken as literal.

Some people say that I talk too fast, but I think it's just that they listen too slowly.

If you have to translate code to statements to understand it, it should probably be statements in the first place.

map is similar to a list comprehension but is more limited because it requires a function instead of an arbitrary expression.

We met the list comprehension briefly in Chapter 4. Syntactically, its syntax is derived from a construct in set theory notation that applies an operation to each item in a set, but you don't have to know set theory to use this tool.

As usual in programming, if something is difficult for you to understand, it's probably not a good idea.

If God's justice could be recognized as just by human comprehension, it would not be divine. MARTIN LUTHER All

The first step in writing is reading.

If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

When a person has a poor ear for music he will flat and sharp right along without knowing it. He keeps near the tune, but it is not the tune. When a person has a poor ear for words, the result is a literary flatting and sharping; you perceive what he is intending to say, but you also perceive that he doesn't say it. This is Cooper.

His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.

There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a pencilling

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.