C is not clean
C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on. Erik Naggum
Semantics
The use of the
The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules. Fernando J. Corbato
All our work, our
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them. Felix Frankfurter
It is not new
It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology. David Riesman
Faith is a continuum,
Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious – that is, that we are all trying to decipher life’s big mysteries, and we’re each following our … Read more
I guess it’s not
I guess it’s not the plan that counts, but the words in which the plan is wrapped. Semantics count for everything, and it’s obvious that the resolute Republicans are better at semantics than the weak, flip-flopping Democrats. Bruce Barnbaum
If we’re for one
If we’re for one another, we’re feminists. The rest is semantics. Betty Buckley
I heard you’re campaigning
I heard you’re campaigning on my behalf. He walked over to me. That wouldn’t be because you’d miss me too much if I were gone,would it? Don’t be absurd, I scoffed. I don’t condone murder, even for people like you. People like me,huh? He cocked an eyebrow. You mean devilishly handsome, debonair young men who … Read more
Identity is invariably false
Identity is invariably false to facts. Alfred Korzybski
You will not find
You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. Alfred Tarski