#understand

If you're going to be successful, you better have a goal, you better find really good people, better understand where all the money's coming from. And you better measure the living daylights out of it. ↗

— Rick Scott

#coming #find #goal #going #good

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. ↗

— John Searle

#argue #car #computer #exactly #i

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on. ↗

— John Searle

#decision #fact #many #matter #simple

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. ↗

— John Searle

#adding #analogy #attribute #cars #cognitive

I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why. ↗

— David Sedaris

#facebook #goes #gone #i #know

People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country. ↗

— David Sedaris

#american #american culture #ask #back #country

I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#just #know #life #love #moment

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better. ↗

— Jane Rule

#beautiful way #better #craft #else #far

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#another #bunny #character #easter #get

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#actually #been #coach #elizabethan #imagine