Understanding Quotes

“Computation is a lens for understanding the world.”

“We live in a society cursed by too much information, in which it has become a axiom that the more we know, the less we understand.”

“We need a much better understanding of the risks and benefits of AI.”

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

“We cannot understand a thing until we can express it.”

“I was told I was brain-damaged. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself.”

“If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.”

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

“Nothing should be believed unless it is first understood.”

“In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.”

“If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics.”

“A problem thoroughly understood is a problem half solved.”

“You will have to go to the very bottom of his suffering and follow it to its source, you will have to go with him.”

“To understand is to invent.”

“Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.”

“The ability to understand context is a critical frontier for artificial intelligence.”

“I'll never know you. You'll never know me. You can't.”

“It is the event that enlightens the preceding time.”

“The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.”

“If you can make a computer do something, you understand it.”