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A word can only serve to indicate that someone else may have a valuable idea—that is, some useful structure to be built inside the mind. Each new word only plants a seed: to make it grow, a listener's mind must find a way to build inside itself some structure that appears to work like the one in the mind from which it was learned.

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from "The Society of Mind"
by Marvin Minsky