Top 70 Semantic Quotes
#1. I believe the deeply rooted semantic confusion between 'man' as a male and 'man' as a species has been fed back into and vitiated a great deal of the speculation that goes on about the origins, development, and nature of the human race.
Elaine Morgan
#2. Most of the books call Her a He, but I am able to ascertain what is meant, despite that semantic error..
Roseanne Barr
#3. It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.
Joe Bradley
#4. It seemed impossible that he'd chosen to live here, at a latitude where spring was a semantic variation on winter, in a grid whose rigid geometry only a Greek or a builder of prisons could love, in a city that made its own gravy when it rained.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#5. Modernist discourse [ ... ] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open.
Phillip E. Johnson
#7. Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
Robert Anton Wilson
#8. An individual cannot be considered entirely sane if he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains primitive semantic reactions.
Alfred Korzybski
#9. To win at semantic search you need more people than are on your payroll.
David Amerland
#10. Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.
Thomas Szasz
#11. 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, rule us.
Alfred Korzybski
#12. Semantic search is a holistic effort by Google (primarily) to understand who you are and what you do across the web.
David Amerland
#13. 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
#14. At its most basic level semantic search applies meaning to the connections between the different data nodes of the Web in ways that allow a clearer understanding of them than we have ever had to date.
David Amerland
#15. All I knew about the word cyberspace when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative and essentially meaningless. It was suggestive of something, but had no real semantic meaning, even for me, as I saw it emerge on the page.
William Gibson
#16. A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents.
Robert W. Floyd
#17. Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.
Tim Berners-Lee
#18. Marketing effectively, in a semantic web, revolves around those three 'little' requirements: Trust, Authority, Reputation.
David Amerland
#19. 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 and people to work in cooperation.
Tim Berners-Lee
#20. Every image is in some way a "portrait," not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it pulls and draws (this is the semantic and etymological sense of the word), in that it extracts something, an intimacy, a force.
Sally Mann
#21. The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.
Noam Chomsky
#22. People simply can't accept that patterns carry their own intelligence, quite apart from the semantic content that clings to their surfaces; if you manipulate the topology correctly, that content just comes along for the ride.
Peter Watts
#23. In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.
Tim Berners-Lee
#24. We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
J.D. Salinger
#25. If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. We'd like the computers to actually pick up on that semantic meaning.
Ray Kurzweil
#26. And Watt's need of semantic succour was at times so great that he would set to trying names on things, and on himself, almost as a woman hats.
Samuel Beckett
#27. Where is the absolution of religion now? Morality is not negotiable, Hensley. Unleashing a war machine in order to end a war? An absurd Olympics of semantic excuses. Ludicrous.
Hazel Woods
#28. 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. It is Nielsen ratings and Barnum's axiom and the real bottom line. It is big, big business.
David Foster Wallace
#29. In many ways semantic search takes us back to the golden days of the Web when in terms of working online anything was possible as long as you had passion, belief in yourself, and energy to work at it.
David Amerland
#30. When it comes to semantic search and the success of your social media policy, truly, there is only one thing that absolutely counts: engagement.
David Amerland
#31. Never underestimate the ridiculous things that have been done in the name of religious-semantic obscurity.
Kate Griffin
#32. It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
Alain Badiou
#33. It set us on a path of trying to fake them by piggybacking on supposedly semantic elements, like lipstick on a div.
Anonymous
#34. Reporting concepts as well as the relationships between concepts and other semantic meaning.
Anonymous
#35. Metaphysics is never more than semantic pleasantries anyway.
Haruki Murakami
#36. One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree - make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.
Elon Musk
#37. 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 content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.
Don DeLillo
#38. The idea that people can behave naturally, without resorting to an artificial code tacitly agreed upon by their society, is as silly as the idea that they can communicate by a spoken language without commonly accepted semantic and grammatical rules.
Judith Martin
#39. The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory, a 'semantic disturbance' is set up in the organism. The disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized.
Alfred Korzybski
#40. Don't play semantic games with the prospect. Advertising is not a debate. It's a seduction.
Al Ries
#41. [Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.
Amos Tversky
#42. No reflecting reader can deny that the passing off, on an unsuspecting listener, of noises for words, or symbols, must be classified as a fraud, or that we pass to the other fellow contagious semantic disturbances.
Alfred Korzybski
#43. 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
#44. Good software results from the proper organization of components, not from syntactic or semantic restrictions. Meanings
Alexander Stepanov
#45. As the semantic engineer, your job is naming the parts and tightening nuts and bolts. I suggest you get back to your office and do that - right now!
John Sladek
#46. A crassly arbitrary method can be avoided only when it is accepted that etymological statements are historical and not authoritative and that semantic statements must be based on the social linguistic consciousness related to usage.
James Barr
#48. 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, as much as producing, creating, forcing, guiding, are necessary aspects of elaboration.
Edward Said
#49. The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.
Al Stewart
#50. The transition from the concept of information in the technical (communication engineering) sense to the semantic (theory of meaning) sense was indeed difficult, if not impossible.
Anatol Rapoport
#51. The idea of reputation, influence, and influencers in the offline world is as old as the hills. It's not new on the web either, but semantic search is creating a portable sense of identity, reputation, and influence that in the days before it simply did not exist. And this is changing everything
David Amerland
#52. There's a lot of complicated magical reasons why I'm not at the party that are too long and semantic to go into.
Alden Ehrenreich
#53. By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice.
Thomas Szasz
#54. The richness of every European language is a richness in ability to describe its own culture, represent its own world. When it ventures to do the same for another culture, however, it betrays its limitations, underdevelopment, semantic weakness.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#55. When it comes to measuring the effectiveness of your engagement in the social media environment what counts are: Comments and Sentiment.
David Amerland
#56. The social media web is a very noisy one indeed and making sure that you are heard requires you to shout more effectively, rather than louder.
David Amerland
#57. I am a firm believer that knowledge is power but only if it leads to comprehension.
David Amerland
#58. In few other marketing activities does the phrase "the more things change, the more they remain the same" hold as much meaning as it does in search.
David Amerland
#59. Real search is about providing valuable information when it's really needed to those who are actually looking for it.
David Amerland
#60. What we learn from behavior economics is that the moment a metric is created it generates an incentive for people to pursue it.
David Amerland
#61. Search is the means through which we navigate the Web. If your business is not visible in search it is difficult for it to be found by your customers. Search, above all else, is marketing, and it is undergoing a massive change.
David Amerland
#62. People tend to overuse any idea or concept that delivers an emotional kick.
Chip Heath
#63. Everything that happens now in the online world is part of a conversation.
David Amerland
#64. A business needs a character and an identity, just like a person and just like a person it needs to have a Voice.
David Amerland
#65. A pair of eyes attached to a human brain can quickly make sense of the content presented on a web page and decide whether it has the answer it's looking for or not in ways that a computer can't. Until now.
David Amerland
#66. Everything you see in the world around you is content of some kind. The clothes you wear, the songs you sing, the ads you watch, the food you buy, the tunes you hum and the memes you share. Everything is a signal that sends a message.
David Amerland
#67. Companies that cannot successfully answer what they do fail to then understand how they can continue to do it in the face of change.
David Amerland
#68. An entity, whether a person or a thing, requires the independent collection of facts about them and a cross-referencing of these facts through their digital footprint.
David Amerland
#69. Ever since I was a child I have been a strong believer in the principle that to under-stand how anything works you need to take it apart and look at it in detail. This principle that worked with toys also works pretty well with search.
David Amerland
#70. It is not wrong to think that the traditional buying of a product has been replaced with an unwritten contract of shared values between a business and its customers.
David Amerland
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