One should never mistake pattern for meaning. 

Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata

Narrative is a lie... it sustains its power from a quite illogical juxtaposition of events, and perceived chain of causality- it is simply seditious, and cannot be trusted!

Chris Deliso, in the yet unpublished Third Emperor of California

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Niels Bohr

Anybody any good at what they do, that’s what they are.

William Gibson, Neuromancer

The urgent project at the moment isn’t adding more information to the cultural file; it is understanding how meaning is produced.

 

Nathan Heller, The New Yorker (July 24, 2017)

We know the meaning of nothing but the words we use to describe it.

Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena