In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

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.

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.

If a fourteen year-old can deliver your message, it's not because he's gifted. It's because intellectually, you're a child.

A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation.

His body tensed as his gut was struck with a frozen bullet of shock. He couldn’t breathe.

When you pray rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative.

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

The secret of life is getting today right. Everyone can get today right, and if you can do it once you can do it repeatedly.