Quotes About Meaning

The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.

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.

It's not about the language, it's about the message

Why we do what do matters. When we lose our why, we lose our way. We inevitably get lost when we don't know why we are doing what we are doing.

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.

The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences, these white spaces on the page or the computer screen.

Words only make sense when the person who says them means a lot.

One thing I know that's really cool - it seems to me that Blake Schwarzenbach [Jets to Brazil frontman; ex-Jawbreaker] is someone who's made music that's people continue to take really personally.

This poem was meant to be unwritten. But I am writing it now and have thereby changed destiny.

There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

In Chinese the word for crisis is weiji composed of the character wei which means danger and ji which means opportunity.

My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters' names are Jina and Jacey Jones.

I'm justthe reason they married.Mum saysI was a surprise.Dad saysI was an accident.Truth is ...I am their mistake.

The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary.

Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

We live to avoid death, we exist to avoid unexistence

It is not a choice of life, it is a choice of death. If this is life, I'd rather die.

I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.

The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.