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"Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself."
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"I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?"
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"'Tis not every question that deserves an answer."
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"But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking."
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"But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it."
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"Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's."
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"It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like."
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"I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors."
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"There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too."
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"The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere."
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"We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?"
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"Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places."
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"We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions."
Philosophy
"I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing."
Car
"An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived."
Trust
"Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence."
Existence
"Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples."
Philosophy
"My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business."
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"I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding.""
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"In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on."
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"Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself."
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