People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.

Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are-objective pictures. He mumbled that he wasn't quite sure what that would be. The person who was bullying him produced a photograph of his wife from his wallet and said, "There, you see, that is a picture of how she really is." Picasso looked at it and said, "She is rather small, isn't she? And flat?"

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.