Language Quote by Alfred Korzybski

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...

— Alfred Korzybski

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure…

— Alfred Korzybski

Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once.

— Lesley Howarth

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the…

— Alfred Korzybski

Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to.

— Max Fisher

If geography is prose, maps are iconography,

— Lennart Meri

A language is a map of our failures

— Adrienne Rich

Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.

— Mark Jenkins

“map is similar to a list comprehension but is more limited because it requires a function instead of an arbitrary expression.”

— Mark Lutz

All I ever wanted was a world without maps.

— Michael Ondaatje

A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did…

— Reif Larsen

A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps.…

— Russell Hoban