Full Idea
The quest of a simplest, clearest overall pattern of canonical notation is not to be distinguished from a quest of ultimate categories, a limning of the most general traits of reality.
Clarification
'Limning' means sketching
Gist of Idea
The quest for ultimate categories is the quest for a simple clear pattern of notation
Source
Willard Quine (Word and Object [1960], §33)
Book Reference
Quine,Willard: 'Word and Object' [MIT 1969], p.161
A Reaction
I won't disagree, as long as we recognise that reality calls the shots, not the notation, and that even animals must have some sort of system of categories, achieved without 'notation'.