"There is still this tremendously important problem, which is to get computers to know enough about the world that they can do the final few percentage points of speech recognition".
He had not yet mentioned Ms. Palin at that point of his speech.
This was the essential, if unsurprising, point of the speech: freedom needs government oversight and regulation.
But the central point of the speech went beyond the well-remarked civility and compassion.
"The whole point of free speech is that it doesn't matter what's said," said Mr. Montesano, the sophomore.
But the point of the speech, its overall direction, and how it would deal with Americans' energy realities remained in deep, often bitter dispute.
The whole point of official speech regulation is that, in its high-minded partiality, it selects only certain, vulnerable communities for protection.
That's the template for passing Obama's agenda in 2013, and that was the point of his speech Tuesday night.
The starting point of his speech was the state of affairs he inherited nine years ago, when Turkey was in an acute economic crisis and under the rule of an entrenched secular élite.
