Semantic Quotes

32 quotes by 26 authors

The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things. — Tim Berners-Lee
Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules… — Noam Chomsky
At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over.… — David Foster Wallace
It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to… — Mikhail Bakhtin
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. — Edsger Dijkstra
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If… — Alfred Korzybski
If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our… — Alfred Korzybski
Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols,… — Alfred Korzybski
Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by â€˜the enemyâ€™, and from which oneâ€™s own acts of… — David Livingstone
Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination, fracturing, diffusion, reproducing,… — Edward Said
Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot. — Robert Anton Wilson
Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a… — Phillip E. Johnson
The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a mental… — E. Fuller Torrey
There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic… — Don DeLillo
In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have not… — Gary Snyder
Every image is in some way a â€œportrait,â€ not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it… — Sally Mann
One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree - make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie… — Elon Musk
The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers… — Tim Berners-Lee
The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them. — Al Stewart
Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let them engage with… — Matt Fraction

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