Semantics Quotes

You can play semantics and say that the operating system is shipping in 2006, but if consumers can't buy it until 2007, PC manufacturers don't have it to sell to them. This blow falls on the partners. - Joe Wilcox

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics. - Len Wein

We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old philosophies, and that from them arise most of the old philosophical fights and arguments. - Alfred Korzybski

We are so cleverly manipulated and influenced by the media and establishments on both the right and left, that the truth has become hopelessly lost in semantics. - Jules Carlysle

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. - Willard Van Orman Quine

This may seem like stupid semantics on my part, but actors are so often misrepresented in the press, I feel it's important to set the record straight here. Residual payments are not profit-sharing. Residual payments are reuse fees that producers pay to actors when they've re-used the actor's performance a certain number of times. - Wil Wheaton

The United States is no longer enemy No. 1, as you know, it's priority No. 1... And this is the only difference: semantics. - Oleg Kalugin

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language. - Roman Jakobson

In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the symbol to symbolize. - Alfred Korzybski