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Quotes About Nomenclature

People know me as Prakash Rai in Karnataka. Let it be so. But I'm known as Prakash Raj to the rest of India and abroad. Every actor worth his salt gets a name after coming to films.
~ Prakash Raj
I think I'll call you Cygnus," Chelsea said. "The swan?" I said. A bit precious, but it could have been worse. She shook her head. "Black hole. Cygnus X-1.
~ Peter Watts
They certainly give very strange names to diseases
~ Plato
The cobra will bite you whether you call it cobra or Mr. Cobra.
~ Proverb
We even found time, and nomenclature, for loosely related campaigns. One was the 2011 imbroglio in Libya known at the outset as Operation Odyssey Dawn, a good name for a Las Vegas pole dancer but a bit exotic for a military campaign.
~ Daniel P. Bolger
Then what do we call you?" another of the heat forms asked. "We are Rutan." "Our species need something a little more particular," the first heat form of the Time Lord said. "I think we'll call you Fred, for ease of reference.
~ David A. McIntee
When two or more of their lighthuggers met, they would compare and update their respective nomenclature tables. If the first ship had assigned names to a group of worlds and their associated geographical features, and the second ship had no current entries for those bodies, it was usual for the second ship to amend its database with the new names. They might be flagged as provisional, unless a third ship confirmed that they were still unallocated.
~ Alastair Reynolds
I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another, but I liked the combination of Jamaica Kincaid.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
When it comes to the periodic table, the United States really blew its chance to make a name for itself. If you look over a map of all the elements named for cities, states, countries, and continents, it's not surprising that European locales dominate the map.
~ Sam Kean
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].
~ Henri Poincare
We've gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that's an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?
~ Spike Lee
When they were naming the animals, somebody got lazy: anteater? What's it doing? It's eating ants. DONE!
~ Demetri Martin
The several hundred kinds of hawthorn laugh at the single name they're forced to share.
~ Richard Powers
A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet.
~ William Shakespeare
Shitload said, "His name is Korrok the Slavemaster from the eighth plane, also known in some realms as Baa'aaa'aaa'aab and in others as the Lord Zanthk All-Bzzki'l Shadd'uuul'l L'luuu'ddahs L'ikzzb-lla Khtnaz.
~ David Wong
What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet." —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
~ Jeanne Ray
For one thing, they did not call themselves Pilgrims (that term was not widely used until about 1840). Nor were they fleeing immediate persecution.
~ Kevin Jackson
The nomes are immortal; that is, they do not perish, as mortals do, unless they happen to come in contact with an egg. If an egg touches them—either the outer shell or the inside of the egg—the nomes lose their charm of perpetual life and thereafter are liable to die through accident or old age, just as all humans are.
~ L. Frank Baum
They've called me a great many things over the years, but my name is Nefarian Serpine.
~ Derek Landy
God has no real name just different nicknames.
~ An9e7 X
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
Consider, for example, the truly hideous practice of creating a variable named klass just because the name class was used for something else.
~ Robert C. Martin
That's being attentive to every variable name. You should name a variable using the same care with which you name a first-born child.
~ Robert C. Martin
In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
~ Friedrich Engels