Chomsky Quotes

“Chomsky's writings are 'classics' in Mark Twain's sense: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
― Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

“Chomsky is like the teenager who first discovers that those in authority—his parent, his teacher—are not as all-knowing as they claim to be and as their underlings once imagined them to be, and who persists in endlessly showing them up”
― Jeffrey C. Isaac