One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.

Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.

The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other.

The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.

The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.

Those who fight against God's people are fighting against God, and fighters against God will not prevail.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

I hate morning workout I'm a night person more. But it's good to work out in the mornings because then you can have all day free.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.

Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.

There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.

Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.

Last night I dreamed I was still human, but now I have woken up, into something better. Farewell, my friends, farewell.