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“legal investigation. As Clinton noted, “My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful.”
― Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature

“long middle finger resembling a twig that it could use for probing for grubs. There is a telling example of convergent evolution when an unrelated species (the Long-Fingered Possum from Papua New Guinea) devised a similar strategy to address the same problem. (Douglas was very intrigued by the implications of convergence. What need is there to posit a designer if the operation of random forces, constrained by the reality of the world, produces the same elegant solution, as if there were no choice in the matter?) We monkeys have”
― Nick Webb, Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams

“Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the relation of words to reality—the way that speakers commit themselves to a shared understanding of the truth, and the way their thoughts are anchored to things and situations in the world.”
― Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature

“Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer