"What something means remains open ended, future oriented, and changeable." —Jeffrey Thomas Nealon & Susan Searls Giroux

"In telling what something means, you express an opinion, much as you do in telling what you like or dislike." —Philip Edward Burnham

"If you know what something means, that 'something' will be part of your life. If you can't conceive of what something means, it will have no part in your life." —Susan Felicity Minsos

"We aren't talking about what something means to you anymore, we're talking about what something means to itself and that's a very different thing." —Matthew Watkinson