Syntax Semantics Quotes & Sayings

We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end. — David Frum

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. — Dennis Gabor

I have forgotten much that I thought I knew, and learned again much that I had forgotten. I can see many things far off, but many things that are close at hand I cannot see. Tell — J.R.R. Tolkien

Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions. — Steve Backley

If you use one of the multi-core Node.js modules, such as cluster, you should create a separate Couchbase connection object for each thread. — David Ostrovsky

I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to. — Henry Rollins

The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules. — Fernando J. Corbato

Buttressing this argument (that you can prevent children from learning to read or ride bicycles but you can't stop them from learning to talk), Chomsky had pointed to two other universals in human language: that its emergence in children follows a very precise timetable of development, no matter where they live or which particular language is the first they learn; and that language itself has an innate structure. Chomsky has recently reminded audiences that the origins of the structure of language - how semantics and syntax interact - remain as "arcane" as do its behavioral and neurologic roots. Chomsky himself finds nothing in classical Darwinism to account for human language.* And for that reason, says Plotkin, linguistics is left with a major theoretical dilemma. If human language is a heritable trait but one that represents a complete discontinuity from animal communicative behavior, where did it come from? — Frank R. Wilson

Every time you make a decision, you mess with someone's life. — Kevin James

You're not going to write the greatest novel ever written.
Nor will I.
Nor will anyone.
Why? Because the greatest novel ever written is subjective and means something different to every person.
So don't focus on writing the greatest novel of all time.
Instead, focus on writing the greatest novel you've ever written. — Sarah M. Cradit

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand. — Alan Paton

Moving in the conventional direction, phonetics concerns the acoustic dimensions of linguistic sound. Phonology studies the clustering of those acoustic properties into significant cues. Morphology studies the clustering of those cues into meaningful units. Syntax studies the arrangement of those meaningful units into expressive sequences. Semantics studies the composite meaning of those sequences. — Randy Allen Harris

We depend on various cultural forms-the syntax and semantics of English, the deliverances of modern astronomy-to know that the earth is round, but this in no way jeopardizes the objective circularity of the planet. — Douglas Groothuis

She's quite intelligent, in my stupidity. — J.D. Salinger

It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and pragmatics. I believe that this effort has proven to be a failure. Though Chomsky did indeed revolutionize the subject of linguistics, it is not at all clear, at the end the century, what the solid results of this revolution are. As far as I can tell there is not a single rule of syntax that all, or even most, competent linguists are prepared to agree is a rule. — John Rogers Searle