It Would Be As Useless To Perceive

The Secret Of What Anything Means To Us Depends On How We've Connected It To All The Other Things We Know. That's Why It's Almost Always Wrong To Seek The "real Meaning" Of Anything. A Thing With Just One Meaning Has Scarcely Any Meaning At All.

Speed Is What Distinguishes Intelligence. No Bird Discovers How To Fly: Evolution Used A Trillion Bird-years To 'discover' That – Where Merely Hundreds Of Person-years Sufficed.

We Rarely Recognize How Wonderful It Is That A Person Can Traverse An Entire Lifetime Without Making A Single Really Serious Mistake — Like Putting A Fork In One's Eye Or Using A Window Instead Of A Door.

We Turn To Quantities When We Can't Compare The Qualities Of Things.

Anyone Could Learn Lisp In One Day, Except That If They Already Knew Fortran, It Would Take Three Days.