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 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.

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

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 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.

The roots of the abundant life may seem bitter, but its fruits are sweet.

Every dream has a creator in it, And it completes the creator by itself.

He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.

I've been incredibly fortunate to be able to have different opportunities and be able to choose, which is kind of amazing.

The best way to learn to swim is to dive.

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?

I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.

Be who you really are.