Quotes About Comprehension

If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.

It's my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God's plan, I don't have a pencil with me.

If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.

As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.

See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.

Lots of very funny code is written because people don't take the time to understand the algorithm.

The problem isn't the simplicity of the code but the implicity of the code (to coin a phrase): the degree to which the context is not explicit in the code itself.

Any comment that forces you to look in another module for the meaning of that comment has failed to communicate to you and is not worth the bits it consumes.

Indeed, the ratio of time spent reading versus writing is well over 10 to 1. We are constantly reading old code as part of the effort to write new code. ...[Therefore,] making it easy to read makes it easier to write.

So if you want to go fast, if you want to get done quickly, if you want your code to be easy to write, make it easy to read.

One difference between a smart programmer and a professional programmer is that the professional understands that clarity is king. Professionals use their powers for good and write code that others can understand.

If Hegel could not be taught to ordinary intelligent people, then I for one would not find reason to read him at all.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

first phase is referred to as the cognitive phase. During this phase, the teacher is attempting to understand the strategy, but not using it with any utility or effectiveness.

You read too much and understand too little.

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

i can't understand her well son, you might as well try to understand the sun

He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

This was not the first time she had squeezed meanings from his words that he never knew were in them.

What are you two blathering about?" she said sharply. "Just things that men talk about," Lan replied. "You wouldn't understand," Rand said.

One day he was going to understand women. When he had the time to apply to it. He suspected a lifetime would not be enough, though.

You couldn't make a thing until you understood its parts. He wouldn't know how to deal with—or reject—the wolf inside him until he understood the wolf dream.

Any Sitter would recognize