Associations to the word «Quine»

Wiktionary

QUINE, noun. (computing) A program that produces its own source code as output.
QUINE, verb. (philosophy) To deny the existence or significance of something obviously real or important.
QUINE, verb. To append something to a quotation of itself.

Dictionary definition

QUINE, noun. United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne