Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.
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.
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery. . . As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science.
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met. . . I can say that the most beautiful and natural expressions of joy which I have seen in my life were in poor people who had little to hold on to.
I think, for me, I have to remember that I'm telling a story in some way.
Nelson Mandela is my hero outside of football. I was fortunate enough to meet him a couple of times. He was really clued up on his football and he knew me, so that was just unbelievable. It really stuck with me.
My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.