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Professor Moore: "Grammar is very fragile."

Professor Moore: "How do we know they're not members of E? Because we look at them and they have asterisks in front of them. How did we decide to put asterisks there? We made a number of probably unjustified assumptions."

Student: "But if you limit it to strings of words, you won't be able to say, like, '"Shmirk" is not a word of English.'"

Professor Moore: "You guys are going to have data fights in this class."

Professor Moore: "Sociolinguists have been beating us over the head for years, and we've been happily ignoring them."

Professor Moore: "It's probably more responsible as a scientist to ask more than one person."

Professor Moore: "Breathing your own exhaust."

Professor Moore: "This would exclude the framework 'generative semantics,' which was practiced at MIT when Chomsky was on sabbatical."

Professor Moore: "Sorry, I have spelling issues and they get worse the closer I get to a board."

Professor Moore: "This course tends to be a bit labor-intensive. If it's any consolation, it's also labor-intensive for me."