#stand

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#cinema #doing #each #ever #how

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#cultures #each #know #more #other

You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#big screen #color #depth #first #gotta

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 know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers. ↗

— Kathleen Sebelius

#forces #how #i #know #powerful

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

One of the things that's pretty unique about nu shu, when you look especially at these old letters and stories that have been saved, is that there are certain lines that are very standard that are used again and again. It's almost like a formula in a sense, so that these certain lines come up again and again. ↗

— Lisa See

#again #almost #been #certain #come