Syntactic Quotes
- Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules… — Noam Chomsky
- Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man… — Constance Hale
- You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar. — Bill Joy
- When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend. — Eric S. Raymond