« A fundamental intellectual and moral principle is that the powerful make the law. It is an essential rule of the world order, as well as in the Mafia. Any resemblance is not coincidental. »

« My own estimate of the situation is that the real problem of tomorrow will be to discover a hypothesis about the innate structure that is rich enough, and not to find a hypothesis simple and elementary enough to be "plausible". »

« According to this traditional conception, the mind produces a system of proposals expressing the meaning of a sentence when the sentence is made in the form of a physical signal, the system and the signal being connected by certain formal operations that we can call, according to current terminology, grammatical transformations. To continue with the terminology, we can thus distinguish the surface structure (surface structure) of the sentence, organization in categories and syntags that is directly associated with the physical signal, from the underlying deep structure (deep structure), also organization of categories and syntags, but of a more abstract character. »