The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.

Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.

The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other.

The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.

The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.

I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

In any case, the goal is the same: to connect.

We're trying to tell stories. We're a company that's concerned with global change and the effect of global cinema. We're not simply tied to the very limiting framework of U.S. film-making.

I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.

Art is really whispering, not shouting.

I never got into the gangs. Gangs are for followers.

There is a significant difference between having no belief in a God and believing there is no God.

Hope for forces which you do not yet have.

In public worship all should join. The little strings go to make up a concert, as well as the great.