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