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

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

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

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

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

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

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.

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

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.

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.

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

When single you are, ” Roger said, imitating Yoda dispensing advice to Luke, “get laid you can. When married you get, make love you do.

… and I’ll be happy here and happy there, fullof tea and tears

The rain keeps starting and stopping like an anxious lover who doesn’t know if he should spend the night.

Prosperity of wicked men runs like a torrent past, and soon is spent.

I understand from experience that unity is easy to call for, but it takes the right kind of leadership to achieve.

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

I find inspiration in everything from a piece of art to the hem of a dress.

A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or later, spectacle is just going to have to find a new way to exist.

So many bands write about the same s - . It gets real boring after a while.