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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. — Charles Babbage

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles. — Charles Babbage

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher. — Louis Farrakhan

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate! — William James

I'd rather watch the grass grow than listen to gossip. — Lisa M. Cronkhite

A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power. — Charles Babbage

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. — Charles Babbage

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision. — Charles Babbage

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. — Charles Babbage

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam, — Charles Babbage

Proverbs 23:7 reminds us, "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he" (NLV). We — Lysa TerKeurst

If someone throws a pie at your face, just open your mouth really wide and say, 'Thanks for feeding me, a**hole.' — Demetri Martin

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions. — Charles Babbage

We are all the beneficiaries of those who went before us, as well as those who will care for us in old age or ill health. — Tony Judt

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity. — Charles Babbage

What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it. — Charles Babbage

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures. — Charles Babbage

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed. — Charles Babbage

But you have to choose: live or tell. — Jean-Paul Sartre

We must not have any reason to love someone, because where there is reason love dies with the change of that reason. — Debolina

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work. — Charles Babbage

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. — Charles Babbage

A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge. — Charles Babbage

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes. — James Gleick

Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart — B.K.S. Iyengar

If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities. — Charles Babbage