Babbages Machine Quotes & Sayings

God seeks comrades and claims love,
The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience. — Rabindranath Tagore

Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires. — William Congreve

Home after midnight from a debate on the wording of a minor municipal bylaw on bottle recycling, he felt like he was a pin in the hinge of power. — Annie Proulx

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance. — Sophocles

It always bothers me that, according to the laws as we understand them today, it takes a computing machine an infinite number of logical operations to figure out what goes on in no matter how tiny a region of space, and no matter how tiny a region of time. How can all that be going on in that tiny space? Why should it take an infinite amount of logic to figure out what one tiny piece of space/time is going to do? — Richard Feynman

At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar's last breath. — Arthur Compton

He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself. — Jack Newfield