Code Quote by Max Black Download Open image “Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.” — Max Black ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Code Learning Metaphor Programming Riddle Understanding Unraveling
The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another. — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another. — James Geary Copy Share Image
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery. — OMI Copy Share Image
“A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression (a form of words) used for artistic or rhetorical purposes; instead, it is a process of… — Mark Johnson Copy Share Image
I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to penetrate the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns. — James Geary Copy Share Image
Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics — Max Black Copy Share Image
No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction… — Max Black Copy Share Image
Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine. — Max Black Copy Share Image
We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there… — Max Black Copy Share Image
...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another. — Max Black Copy Share Image
... I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to constitute. But… — Max Black Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is no secret that I have read 'The Da Vinci Code' several times. I genuinely believe that 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I loved 'Chicago Code;' I watched that a lot. It was great because it really captured the city - I'm from Chicago, too. — Jessy Schram Copy Share Image
I kind of pride myself on coming onto things that are well-oiled machines and finding a way to bring what I bring and fit… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
When we`re done simplifying the tax code, getting the lobbyist carve outs our of the tax code, lowering our rates and letting people have… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The Cheney team had, for example, technological supremacy over the National Security Council staff. That is to say, they could read their e-mails. I… — Lawrence Wilkerson Copy Share Image
[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom,… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
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