Slave Device

Famous quotes containing the words slave and/or device:

“I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.”
—Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891)

“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)