Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
"Acquisition and use of language"
Quotes 2000s, 2007-09, (3rd ed., 2009)
Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 1987, p. 286
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
"Acquisition and use of language"
Quotes 2000s, 2007-09, (3rd ed., 2009)
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
As quoted in The Times Herald, Norristown, Pennsylvania (1 December 1978)
Context: There's a sense in which all taxes are antagonistic to free enterprise … and yet we need taxes. We have to recognize that we must not hope for a Utopia that is unattainable. I would like to see a great deal less government activity than we have now, but I do not believe that we can have a situation in which we don't need government at all. We do need to provide for certain essential government functions — the national defense function, the police function, preserving law and order, maintaining a judiciary. So the question is, which are the least bad taxes? In my opinion the least bad tax is the property tax on the unimproved value of land, the Henry George argument of many, many years ago.
Kenneth Gärdestad (1948–2018) Swedish song lyricist, architect and lecturer
On constructing the lyrics for Ted Gärdestad's songs, to avoid plosives, such as "Himlen är oskyldigt blå”, as quoted on Kenneth Gärdestad: “Jag vill inte att minnet av Ted förknippas för mycket med hans sjukdom”, Lahti, Gabriella, News55.SE, published on 20 February 2016 (web)
George Kelly (psychologist) (1905–1967) American psychologist and therapist
George A. Kelly, "Man's construction of his alternatives." Assessment of human motives (1958): 33-64.
Shiing-Shen Chern (1911–2004) mathematician (1911–2004), born in China and later acquiring U.S. citizenship; made fundamental contributio…
[Differential geometry, its past and its future, Actes, Congrès inter. math, 1970, 41–53, http://www.math.harvard.edu/~hirolee/pdfs/2014-fall-230a-icm1970-chern-differential-geometry.pdf]
John Rupert Firth (1890–1960) English linguist
Source: Speech, 1930, p. 182-183; As cited in: Angela Senis (2016: 293)
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock (1953) American software engineer
Source: Object-oriented design: a responsibility-driven approach (1989), p. 71