Language Quote by Ted Chiang Download Open image ““Ease of learning isn’t the primary force in language evolution.”” — Ted Chiang ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Learning
“Learning a language is not interesting than knowing how it works.” — Ritesh Shrivastav Copy Share Image
“This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say.” — Joan Barfoot Copy Share Image
“Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go.” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.” — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“There is nothing intrinsic in the English language that made it attain such prominence. It is far from easy to learn. (A recent study… — Minae Mizumura Copy Share Image
“Language at its best is a useful tool, though by its very nature it artificially divides, reduces and oversimplifies.” — Daniel M. Ingram Copy Share Image
“Language at its best is a useful tool, though by its very nature it artificially divides, reduces and over-simplifies. Hopefully,” — Daniel M. Ingram Copy Share Image
“Learning is a profoundly important part of what makes us human. It is also something Good Old-Fashioned AI struggled with. The” — Luke Dormehl Copy Share Image
“Learning a language happens in stages, and the first breakthrough is a limited understanding. Somehow the words began to make sense; I could not… — Vicki Archer Copy Share Image
“The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing urge. Ana's… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“Perhaps men were not meant to live in such a place. If their own natures restrained them from approaching heaven too closely, then men… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity. — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“And then there will be the times when I see you laughing. Like the time you’ll be playing with the neighbor’s puppy, poking your… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“When Arecibo is not listening to anything else, it hears the voice of creation.” — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“the ray of light has to know where it will ultimately end up before it can choose the direction to begin moving” — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“Yet through their endeavor, men would glimpse the unimaginable artistry of Yahweh's work, in seeing how ingeniously the world had been constructed. By this… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“I would have liked to experience more of the heptapods' worldview, to feel the way they feel. Then, perhaps I could immerse myself fully… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
