"My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business." ― John Searle Topic(s): Car More From John Searle "We often attribute ‘understanding’ and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions." "I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing." More In Car "America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."― Hunter S. Thompson "The only disability in life is a bad attitude."― Scott Hamilton "If one’s honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly."― Arabella Weir