When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well.… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“Dynamics Concerning forces and changes in the world. Semantics Concerning meaning, interpretation and intent.” — Mark Burgess Copy Share Image
Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black — in itself.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“communication relies on words having shared meanings. Arriving at that mutual understanding is what semantics is all about.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to say that the man [Obama] is a Marxist. Okay, so he's not a Marxist. He's a progressive! This is… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
There's never been a better time to change the way you think. Replace every 'I can't' with 'How can I?' It might… — Maynard Webb Copy Share Image
“Kevyn, Ennesby tells me you are building a time machine. Actually I'm finished. In one afternoon? Wow... Does it work? After a… — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
I am often asked about the difference between 'change management' and 'change leadership,' and whether it's just a matter of semantics. These… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
“There is something very curious in semantics, that the word ‘meaning’ is probably, in the whole language, the word the meaning of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to understand the nature of something, to find out the truth, that is one thing. If you want to… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old philosophies, and that from them arise… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
ANTI-ZIONISTS, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are… — Milton Steinberg Copy Share Image
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
“Objections to Christianity... are phrased in words, but that does not mean that they are really a matter of language and analysis… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“God is not, like creatures, made up of parts. God is spirit, without bodily dimensions. Firstly, no body can cause change without… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Some people say they don’t believe in God, but they believe in an energy that moves through all living things. Others say… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
Von Neumann languages do not have useful properties for reasoning about programs. Axiomatic and denotational semantics are precise tools for describing and… — John Backus Copy Share Image
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted. — H. R. Haldeman Copy Share Image
“Two of the biggest problems with language is that you can say what you do not mean to say, and that you… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“An individual cannot be considered entirely sane if he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation. — Guy Steele Copy Share Image
Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads. — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
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