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Professor Rose: "This was the last thing Chomsky did in phonology. He sort of went, 'I can't do phonology and grammar and politics,' so he dropped phonology. And now he's sort of dropped syntax. But he's retired. He's allowed to do that."

Professor Rose: "Look how nice phonology is. It's always in patterns."

Professor Rose: "We're not done here-- there's phonology going on here."

Professor Rose: "Languages are not like that in reality. It's full of mess."

Student: "Maybe it's done at the quantum level, where things can be in two places at once. As long as you don't look."

Professor Goodall: "Notice how weird, unexpected, and profoundly disturbing this is."

Professor Goodall: "I persuaded the shit to hit the fan. Imagine a Disney cartoon-- or the Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation."

Professor Goodall: "Syntacticians are seen as being like violinists in the orchestra-- 'Oh, there are other instruments?'"

Professor Goodall: "In the old days-- the old days being 15 years ago."

Professor Goodall: "And this isn't going to be so bad -- we're not going to do too much violence to the beauty we've created."