Slave Device

Famous quotes containing the words slave and/or device:

“It’s fine to be a great democrat when you’ve a slave to rub your boots on.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)

“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)