It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.

Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.

In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.

What would a Martian visitor think to see a human being laugh? It must look truly horrible: the sight of furious gestures, flailing limbs, and thorax heaving in frenzied contortions.

You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

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.