• The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

    Alfred Korzybski: The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.
    "Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics". Book by Alfred Korzybski, 1933.