Farmhouse Free Printables Quotes & Sayings

Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them. — Jack Kingston

Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines. — Edward Young

Nobody is allowed to tell me where the limits of my imagination are. — Ann Patchett

What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after half a century of industrial growth, the condition of the masses was still just as miserable as before, and all lawmakers could do was prohibit factory labor by children under the age of eight? — Thomas Piketty

I had this funny family. At one end, they were breeding dogs in south-east London - for greyhound racing - and at the other, my uncle was living in Downing Street. And I would actually go to Downing Street, which didn't strike me as funny. I'd get on the number 15 bus. — Michael Moorcock

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on. — Albert Einstein

Inspired by the punched railway tickets of the time, an inventor by the name of Herman Hollerith devised a system of punched manila cards to store information, and a machine, which he called the Hollerith Machine, to count and sort them. Hollerith was awarded a patent in 1889, and the government adopted the Hollerith Machine for the 1890 census. No one had ever seen anything like it. Wrote one awestruck observer, "The apparatus works as unerringly as the mills of the Gods, but beats them hollow as to speed." Another, however, reasoned that the invention was of limited use: "As no one will ever use it but governments, the inventor will not likely get very rich." This prediction, which Hollerith clipped and saved, would not prove entirely correct. Hollerith's firm merged with several others in 1911 to become the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. A few years later it was renamed - to International Business Machines, or IBM. — Brian Christian

I'll be back before I have to meet the Headmaster about me going mad and killing people on my birthday, I swear. — Caitlin Kittredge

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me. — A.E. Housman

Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity. — Tom Hollander