learning Quotes

Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.

I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.

Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other.

Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.

So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents.

People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.