Famous quotes containing the words goal and/or state:
“Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given language has as its goal the construction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
“Men judge by the complexion of the sky
The state and inclination of the day.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)