#interpret

How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly? ↗

— Tom Lantos

#act #arab #believe #decent #decent people

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#compiler #engineer #good #interchangeable #interpreter

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#endeavor #force #i #inept #interpret

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#civilization #contradict #interpretations #needs #often

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#fertilize #genius #interpret #itself #much

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. ↗

— Paul de Man

#affirms #after #ambivalence #both #cannot

If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#away #based #conceptual #criteria #down

I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart. ↗

— Diana Ross

#actress #am #first #foremost #heart

I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way. ↗

— Kylie Minogue

#i #interpret #lyrics #them #tune

When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data. ↗

— Henry M. Morris

#data #differ #misinterpreted #obviously #science