From the Stray Thought Bin – 'Agreement'

The only thing they could agree on was that their incomprehension of each other was mutual. 

From the Stray Thought Bin - 'Word Is Not Thing'

Words as words can qualify as 'things' as well. And the words about those things are not those things either. Some people, strangely, seem to have difficulty understanding that. Words seem quite slippery things, don't they? 

From the Stray Thought Bin - 'Don't Assume'

The only assumption I tell people not to assume is the assumption that they can have no assumptions. 

From the Stray Thought Bin - 'Troubleshooting'

To some people, a great troubleshooter may just look like a big trouble-maker. 

From the Stray Thought Bin – 'The Speed of Thought'

‘Thinking’ does not occur in a timeless, fleshless void; if relativity has abolished infinite speeds in physics, then the speed of ‘thought’ is not infinite either. 

From the Stray Thought Bin – 'Bad Students'

Do you realize that a 'bad student' may be a good learner? 

From the Stray Thought Bin – 'Foresight'

Without memory, there can be no foresight. 

The Secret of Korzybski's Work

"If I would have investigated language, 'thinking', I would
have written a perfectly rotten book on 'psychology'. ...The
secret of my work is that I did not investigate 'thinking' or
'speaking'. I investigated time-binding."
—Alfred Korzybski, 1947 letter to Karl Poehlmann

Quote of the Day - 'Logical Insanity'

"Do not have a criticism, so to say, about my work, that 'Korzybski fancies that humans are like geometry; there is a difference between geometry and a human being.' I didn't find it that way, because I have found that humans, even 'insane' are extremely logical provided you trace their premises, except their premises have no realization in actuality. So that's the main point, not a problem of logic. From some premises, some consequences follow." 
——Alfred Korzybski, 1947