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Ambiguity Quotes


"Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be."


"It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth."


"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."


"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way."


"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."


"Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity."
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