"A Lego analogy for how words work

• Using Lego blocks, we can model any large 3-D shape quite well.

• Words are like high-dimensional Lego blocks which can be used for modelling anything at all.

• There are thousands of different words that have different shapes, but each shape has some flexibility. It can deform to fit in with other words in the context.

• Instead of little plastic cylinders that click into holes in the other Lego block, each word has many oddly shaped hands that need to shake hands with other words."

- Geoffrey Hinton, Royal Institution Lecture