The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
I believe that some of my best images have [the] ambiguity which is an essence of life. In this sense I am… — John Gutmann Copy Share Image
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Cemeteries have always had a lure for me. They are well kept, free from ambiguity, logical, virile, and alive. In cemeteries you… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Because the meaning of a story does not lie on its surface, visible and self-defining, does not mean that meaning does not… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I think to be honest, that being is inside. I meet that being in so many people that I meet everywhere in… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
“English: "Don't like the world? So change your role in its ambiguity." Česky: „Nelíbí se ti svět? Tak změň svou roli v… — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about… — Ben Wheatley Copy Share Image
Different reactions while film test screening doesn't mean even the audience thinks ambiguity is a bad thing. But if you're asking them… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
As we progress along the intercultural journey, we become self-reflective about habits of heart and mind and the ways these are expressed… — H. Ned Seelye Copy Share Image
I love discomfort. I mean, my whole life is discomfort. One reason I can never retire is that the idea of just… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image