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

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.

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

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

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.

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

Failures and mistakes are definitely the greatest teachers to all great minds.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.

If your ideas are bigger than the town you're in, you've got to get out of there.

My experiences taught me firsthand that when a person is not performing well, there are many possible reasons, some not of his own choosing.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

That slow smile again. I love that smile! DId I think he was ugly just now? No, his face is transformed.

A team is a fist-not five fingers.

The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness.