An analogy to natural language illustrates the point. The…

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to…

— Jane Austen

“natural language will always remain the basic interpretation of, and reservoir for, the development of the artificial formalized languages of science.”

— Doris Bradbury

A reason to have computers understand natural language is that it's an extremely effective way of communicating. What I came to realize is that…

— Terry Winograd

My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.

— Ray Kurzweil

I am somewhat uncertain whether there is a definite factual question as to whether natural language handles truth-value gaps. Nor am I even quite…

— Saul Kripke

People have been trying to do kind of natural language processing with computers for decades and there has only been sort of slow progress…

— Stephen Wolfram

So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Understanding of natural language is what sometimes is called 'AI complete,' meaning if you can really do that, you can probably solve artificial intelligence.

— Oren Etzioni

The problem with natural language processing and the thing that really holds the technology back, is that when it crashes and burns, it's horrific.…

— Greg Zeschuk

Things like chatbots, machine learning tools, natural language processing, or sentiment analysis are applications of artificial intelligence that may one day profoundly change how…

— Gillian Tans

“The difficulty in making sense of even simple speech is well appreciated by computer scientists who struggle to create machines that can respond to…

— Leonard Mlodinow

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

— Ray Kurzweil

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned…

— Larry Wall

“Memory in the mind of man can adapt to the worst conditions. I'll give you an example, an analogy of sorts: Each night I…

— Bob Thurber

“One use of the argument from analogy is found in response to the question of what or who created the universe. Some have argued…

— Daniel Klein