Ontologies Quotes

#1. Databases, ontologies, and visual representations tie informatic genomes to the specific practices of computers, computational biology, and bioinformatics.

Anonymous

#2. How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#3. The head spins in theoretical disarray; no explanatory model suggests itself; bizarre ontologies loom. There is a feeling of intense confusion, but no clear idea about where the confusion lies.

Colin McGinn

#4. Mysticism is the acquired immunodeficiency of regional ontologies; one catches it through unprotected thought intercourse with the stirred-up concept of the infinite.

Peter Sloterdijk

#5. Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.

Victor Hugo

#6. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown nourishment he had been yearning for.

Franz Kafka

#7. Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

George Sheehan

#8. That story placed man above the animals, until man's fall at Eve's hand, and linked humans to God himself, fashioned in his image. But now the black wolf was telling the girl a grave secret. That man was an animal too.

David Clement-Davies

#9. My brother, who's ten years younger than me, worked with me in the studio when he was very young. He's a guitar player and does programming as well. To have the working and personal relationship coincide has been very natural.

Atticus Ross

#10. An inference of perspective,
a glimpse of regularity,
causation of habit,
and the only recurrence:
my faith in you.

Camilo Garzon