Master Device

Famous quotes containing the words master and/or device:

    Better to master a small skill than to accumulate a big fortune.
    Chinese proverb.

    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)