I had relatives in New York City who I stayed with. And in those days, the area from Union Square down Fourth Avenue had small bookstores, many of which were run by Spanish immigrants who'd fled after [Francisco] Franco's victory. I spent time in them, and also in the offices of Freie Arbeiter Stimme (Free Worker's Voice) with anarchists. I picked up a lot of material and talked to people, and it became a major influence.
Noam ChomskyIf we understood, as we do not, the physical bases for intellectual structures, I have little doubt that we would find structures in the brain for social interactions, or language, or analysis of personality - a whole variety of systems developed on the basis of a specific biological endowment.
Noam ChomskyThe world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.
Noam ChomskySilicon Valley benefits, as all of industry, from highly protectionist policy - patent policies and things like that - which come out of the government.
Noam Chomsky