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).