Ambiguity Quotes

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.

The earnings have been pretty good so far, but there's an ambiguity in the market about them, because you'll see Amazon or Microsoft disappointing and then others beating.

Let there be no ambiguity about the American view that Syria's lack of cooperation .. is not acceptable.

One of the things Wall Street does not like is ambiguity. Now that the agreement is there, it begins to make the future look a little less cloudy, and that's positively received by Wall Street.

I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity.

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

I don't have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about.

To me the ambiguity is, maybe our perception of ourselves is always going to be different than somebody else's perception. There will always be that disparity.

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

Never put the story in the lead. Let 'em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes.

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.

Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.

Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.

The eternal ambiguity of human motives and memory.

The election is another element of ambiguity, .. and oil remains the crucial variable.

This ambiguity is another example of a growing problem with mathematical notation: There aren't enough squiggles to go around.

Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality.

Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.

This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?"

Ambiguity lurks in generality, and may thus become an instrument of severity.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

Bad faith makes the most of every ambiguity.

Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.

Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise.

I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

We must be clear. White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all America stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity.

The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person.

We want to live in ambiguity. This is the human condition.

Business today is about making decisions amid ambiguity.

I think that being mindful of your own biases tends to lead you into ambiguity, not clarity, and that following those ambiguities is the only way to approach the universal.

We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going to live in a universe where important questions will always go unanswered?

I think, as we all learn as a child, you have to learn to tolerate ambiguity better and I'm still terrible at it and I hate it; even the word ambiguity makes me sick to me stomach.

I think in society and especially in movies and media we're fed this idea that there's the one or the right person. I think it brings great ambiguity and confusion for people.

Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women

Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader

Americans always think they have to lead. I'm interested in ambiguity.

We walk from nowhere to nowhere, but at least during our journey we have time to think on how to be able to change this ambiguity!

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.

In the ambiguity and shifting playing field of adult life, I often wish I could just fill in a dot and have someone say “Yes” and hand me a chicken leg, or “No” and slap me with an old fish.