Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure. — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
“Chomsky is a pencil-and-paper theoretician who wouldn't know Jabba the Hutt from the Cookie Monster,” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I remember thinking when I was in college that a lot of these known Chomsky-like, verbose, high-lefty thinkers made absolutely no sense,… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Chomsky's characterization of the United States as a 'propaganda' state like all the rest - distinguishable only by its more effective and… — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
“A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative enquiry, for free creation.’1 Noam Chomsky” — Nicholas Ind Copy Share Image
“As Chomsky says, if you act like there is no possibility of change for the better, you guarantee that there will be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though… — James Donald Copy Share Image
“Chomsky's writings are "classics" in Mark Twain's sense: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.” — Stephen Pinker Copy Share Image
Noam Chomsky is, in some ways, a victim of this new millennium we live in because you can't pull a sound bite… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
“I think maybe I'd still nod and smile and have lunch with him. I think maybe I'd still go to the Noam… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam… — Charles Foster Johnson Copy Share Image
Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What was the most important thing I learned from Chomsky? That capitalism compels us to work ourselves to death in order to… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
“Thus, in short, in sum, in all, it was but a babystep for Chomsky, graced with this understanding of the ineffable richness… — Evan Dara Copy Share Image
“I know how easy it is to sound like a corny version of Noam Chomsky when talking about something like this, but… — Dito Montiel Copy Share Image
She became politically conscious thanks to Studs Terkel and the radio. She started reading all the books we brought home from college… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Chomsky'S grammaticality, the cate gorical S symbol that dominates every sentence, is more fundamentally a marker of power than a syntactic marker:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Noam Chomsky pointed out, the number of possible sentences is infinite in any language; there is no limit to the grammatical combination… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
“I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“This denial is bizarre. Last time Chomsky denied something I attributed to him, it was Chomsky's word against mine and there was… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
“When understanding fails, there is always more force in reserve. As the "experiments in material and human resources control" collapse and "revolutionary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“[A TV commercial] crossed my desk in 1986. It came with a press release boasting about an enormous production budget employed in… — Bob Garfield Copy Share Image
“Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The hypothesis advanced by the propaganda model, excluded from debate as unthinkable, is that in dealing with the American wars in Indochina,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In the succeeding thirty-two years of U.S. guidance, not only has Guatemala gradually become a terrorist state rarely matched in the scale… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“even if Noam Chomsky were right about everything, the Islamic doctrines related to martyrdom, jihad, blasphemy, apostasy, the rights of women and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“My quarrel with Chomsky goes back to the Balkan wars of the 1990s, where he more or less openly represented the "Serbian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination.… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
“As Chomsky explains, this is part of a wider movement to separate the population into two groups: the “plutonomy” and the “precariat.”… — Loren Mayshark Copy Share Image
“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… — Jeffrey C. Isaac Copy Share Image
“But if you wanted to replicate the working of the human brain, you had to intimately understand your model. AI, in other… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“Chomsky thinks this is impossible. Instead, he argues, a child could only show this extensive knowledge of the rules of grammar so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The main job of radicals in the Noam Chomsky or G. Gordon Liddy mode is to go around from one scruffy lecture… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Chomsky reminds us of the conversations about education that took place during the Enlightenment and that continue to shape our education system… — Loren Mayshark Copy Share Image
![“I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors [...] I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey' stuff, she was right, there was nothing there. And it was understood by the…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c77/noam-chomsky-42_chomsky_i-personally-never-expected-anything-of_949949.jpg)
![“[A TV commercial] crossed my desk in 1986. It came with a press release boasting about an enormous production budget employed in service of what it termed a communications “breakthrough”. The secret of this particular breakthrough was the science of semiotics — i.e., conveying meaning via powerful…” quote by Bob Garfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/147/bob-garfield-61148_chomsky_a-tv-commercial-crossed-my-desk-in-1986_817180.png)
![“Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed on the "roots" of September 11. I rush to agree. Here is what he told his audience at MIT on October 11: I'll talk about the situation in…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d5/christopher-hitchens-117_2001_some-readers-may-have-noticed-an-icy-lit_2701880.jpg)
