Abstract Quote by Gary Marcus

The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed…

— Noam Chomsky

The brain sure as hell doesn't work by somebody programming in rules.

— Geoffrey Hinton

When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The…

— Steven Pinker

Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves.

— Mary Quant

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

— George Eliot

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.

— Robert Breault

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of…

— Noam Chomsky

Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered,…

— Charlton Laird

Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves.

— Janet Jackson

I used to think when I had children that somebody else had the rule book and they hadn't given it to me, and everybody…

— Danielle Steel

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

— Marcus Aurelius

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human…

— Noam Chomsky