Inference Quote by Umberto Eco

“The fateful law of human semiotics is this: that of all the objects in the entire Cosmos which the sign-user can apprehend through the…

— Walker Percy

“All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis. All dynamic action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical, either takes place…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

— Charles Jencks

“When you ask for a “sign”, know that the need for a “sign” to avail itself is already a “sign”.”

— Unathi Magubeni

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a…

— Roman Jakobson

Symbols have one characteristic in common with signs; they point beyond themselves to something else. The red sign at the street corner points to…

— Paul Tillich

Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader.…

— George Will

The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.

— Allen Newell

Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

— Confucius