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
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
You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. — Alfred Tarski 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
Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically… — Talulah Riley Copy Share Image
It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I… — Kate DiCamillo 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
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
“Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“One demonstration is equivalent to one hundred explanations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“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
“Looking at what 'foreplay' is, 'sexual intercourse' is a game.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
I don't understand half of what you say and the other half doesn't make sense. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
I think the semantics of mini-series for a network is that it has an end. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
“The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“That statues are motionless would be true only if the earth were the universe.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti 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
“Storms. How did you describe taste? "It's like color.. you see with your mouth." [Shallan] grimaced.” — Brandon Sanderson 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
