Noam Chomsky

Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene.

I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.

Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced delivery systems.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT.

As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.