Hollerith Machine Quotes & Sayings

There was, currently, far more hairy masculinity in her life than any Englishwoman should really have to put up with on a monthly basis. That said, half the pack was away fighting in northern India; someday there would be even more full-moon maleness. She thought of her husband; him she had to deal with on a daily basis. — Gail Carriger

Did you hear something, Nora?" Vee asked. "I thought I heard something." "You definitely heard something," I agreed. "Could that be ... a dog fart I heard?" Vee asked me. — Becca Fitzpatrick

One thing about me is that I don't like being told I can't do something. — Molly Quinn

A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The first arrival of earthly life on another celestial body ranks as an epochal event not only for our generation, but in the history of our planet. Neil Armstrong was at the cusp of the Apollo programme. This was a collective technological effort of epic scale, but his is the one name sure to be remembered centuries hence. — Martin Rees

The Bible teaches that whosoever is born of God does not practice sin. — Billy Graham

Thus pleasure itself, also becoming a right, lost its aggressive futility. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Nothing is lost forever.
Trying keeps the hope alive. — Takeshi Kaneshiro

Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice. — James Russell Lowell

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election. — Arlen Specter

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

Oh Christ, I left my world to watch a kid put shoes on a fucked-up weasel. Shoot me Roland, before I breed. — Stephen King

I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not. — Halsey

Emotion constricted Hawke's throat. He suddenly understood why the victims of concentration camps had walked quietly to the gas chambers. In the face of horror and insanity, it was the one human thing to do. Not the noble thing, not the heroic thing - the human thing. To live succumbing to the insanity, was the ultimate loss of pride. — Karl Marlantes

I don't like having noise swirling around me. Loud noises bother me, so I try to stick to the outside of a room. — Chris Pronger

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess. — Andrea Riseborough