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

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.

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.

Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven - als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden - maar wel om mezelf te kunnen uitdrukken.

I love revisions…We can’t go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

Let us make an endeavour to live life in such a way that it becomes an example in itself which others can follow

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

I've never had a good line. Well, maybe 'I must break you'.

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

So there you have it, the extent of my charms: brown hair and eyes like unbarfed chocolate. I'm a lucky girl." -Max

You have to be rather straightforward with your clients. You can't tell the parties only nice things. This is not an entertainment show; it's not reality television either.

I am suggesting to you the simple idea that people work harder and smarter if they find their work satisfying and know that it is appreciated.