What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

The map is not the territory.

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.

To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Words don't mean, people mean.

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

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

I am happy and content because I think I am.

Education is important not because it helps you to get a job, but because it opens the window of the mind through which we can see the beauty of life.

History is always a grand fantasy... To reconstruct is to invent.

A relationship to me is never about the romance.

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.

To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.

I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.

When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope.

I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.