Slave Device

Famous quotes containing the words slave and/or device:

“There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

“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)