Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

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.

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

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

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

Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.

Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind.

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

'Forever Evil' is, ultimately, a Lex Luthor story. And everything in there is reflecting who Lex is and what he's going through. And we continue to learn more and more things about him that we might not know, and he's going to continue to experience things and do things that are surprising, I think, to even him - especially us.

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.

Really skinny actresses make me hungry - I see them and think, Honey, you need to eat!

My government is in no sense anti-Russian.

I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.