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I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents. -- Ray Kurzweil
My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google. -- Ray Kurzweil
The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language. -- Christopher Dawson
More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor. -- John W. Vessey, Jr.
The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context. -- Troy Perry
When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it. -- Andrzej Wajda
The way that I approached numbers, think about them, the same as for language as well-acquiring vocabulary, understanding the grammar, the structures of languages, the rhythm, the music and so-on - these things obviously evolved. -- Daniel Tammet
I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. It's the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing. -- Joss Whedon
Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like. -- David Crystal
As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life. -- Dinaw Mengestu
It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do? -- Hanif Kureishi
Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language, it also contains a part that constitutes a person, a self: the chief executive of all the subsystems. -- Paul Bloom
I have abused language. I love it, and I abuse it... I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. -- Joss Whedon
When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well. -- Marcel Carne
We have to remain humble about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful tools remain pretty blunt instruments for decoding the brain. In fact, we still do not know how to decipher the basic language of how the brain works. -- Thomas R. Insel
Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English. -- Michael Gove
I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I do my research. And I get a clear understanding of what the language is. It is a tremendous process I have to go through as I am sure all actors do, finding the gems hidden in his language. -- Ruben Santiago-Hudson
The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language -- Christopher Dawson
You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language? -- Jorge Luis Borges
You can just enjoy music without understanding it, muusic is a universal language. -- Cl 2ne1
Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world. -- Paulo Coelho
In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language -- Louis Pasteur
Light means knowledge in the Greek language it can also be translated as illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom -- Sunday Adelaja
Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it. -- Molly Haskell
Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used. -- Mohammad Javad Zarif
When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. -- George Steiner
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language -- Jean Rostand
Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached. -- Werner Heisenberg
By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality. -- Donald Knuth
Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language. -- Wally Amos
It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate. Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling -- Frederick Leboyer
Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. -- Elise M. Boulding
What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form? -- Jeremy Narby
Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style. -- George Sand
Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding. -- John Fairclough
...he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke-the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. -- Paulo Coelho

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