Regarding Linguistics (which has always been a hobby of mine),
   I've tended through the years to lean more towards Lakoff than
   Chomsky (although Chomsky was fabulously necessary for the early
   computing era and spawned many great strides in linguistics,
   even if there's really no language centers of the brain that are
   innate; incorrect beginnings can still lead to marvelous
   results).

   I'm also a fan of embodied cognition which makes me a bit of a
   weirdo when speaking with those who believe in complete
   computational models of the brain or "the universe is
   mathematics" (sells books but there's a good example of
   analogies-taken-too-far as well).