Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Private companies can make a personal profile, direct you to things - they will say - that you would be interested in, but that's their choice not your choice.

It's true that language is in a sense linear but that is as obvious as perceptual space is three-dimensional.

You have to rely on yourself and your associates - gifts don't come from above; you're going to win them, or you won't have them.

We don't live in tyrannies, you know, the king doesn't decide what's legitimate, and there's much more freedom than there was in the past.

I was told by journalists who can't publish it that there are in Mexico, close to the U.S. border, big areas that used to be devoted to agriculture that are now devoted to poppies. They say you can't get in there because they're guarded, first by the cartels, but also by the army, which goes hand in hand with the cartels.

If the rewiring of the brain that yielded recursive generation of hierarchically structured expressions took place in an individual, not a group (and there seems to be no coherent alternative), then interaction must have been a later phenomenon.