“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
“To a blind man, pawn shop and porn shop are one. To an unintelligent man, oversleeping and sleeping over are opposites.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be identical with… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
I guess it's not the plan that counts, but the words in which the plan is wrapped. Semantics count for everything, and… — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.If a psychiatric… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
For me, Christianity is not a genre. It's faith. The Gospel is not a genre either. It's faith. I definitely understand the… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
“Causes of individuals presuppose causes of the species, which are not univocal yet not wholly equivocal either, since they are expressing themselves… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense… — Fernando J. Corbato Copy Share Image
The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs... and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined… — Robert W. Floyd Copy Share Image
From semantics to shipbuilding, from dream theory to propositional logic, any specialist ... is invariably astonished to discover that modern knowledge was… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
A few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called critical philosophy and to the theory of knowledge or… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Looking at what 'foreplay' is, 'sexual intercourse' is a game.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“That statues are motionless would be true only if the earth were the universe.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“One demonstration is equivalent to one hundred explanations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I don't understand half of what you say and the other half doesn't make sense. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
The analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didnt: It was basically… — Talulah Riley Copy Share Image
“Storms. How did you describe taste? "It's like color.. you see with your mouth." [Shallan] grimaced.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The reason I am a political radical is that I work on syntax. If I worked on semantics (which in fact I… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black.… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke, as 'humorist' Rush Limbaugh will tell you… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think the semantics of mini-series for a network is that it has an end. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
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