Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.

The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.

It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

Im almost never serious and Im always too serious. Too deep too shallow. Too sensitive too cold hearted. Im like a collection of paradoxes.

There is no substitute for taking off in flight in front of a live audience.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.

A rule isn't unfair if it applies to everyone.

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.

My life is not very different from what it was 20 years ago. In fact, my career hasn't changed much since I was 22.

When I was broke, no one ever offered to buy me a beer. Now that I have quite a bit of money, everybody tries to buy me beers. Where were all these people back when I was in college and broke?

I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.

The leading edge of reality is mind and mind is the primary substratum of being.

The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative.

Regrets are just expired Dreams.. Throw them out.

Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.

I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people don't have.

Every dish doesn't have to be showy, and every dish doesn't have to slap you in the face with technique.

The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

Basketball isnt a game Its an art form. You master the fundamentals so you can forget em so you can improvise and just concentrate on what really matters getting buckets.

It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts

Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.

The devil doesnt come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything youve ever wished for.

I am enough.