Famous quotes containing the words pointing and/or system:
“And pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 12:49.
Jesus.
“UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of this faculty as a ‘language acquisition device,’ an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)