As president, I will keep you and our country safe, secure, and free.
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.
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.
The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow.
Make it a goal to be somebody's hero.
Audiences forget facts, but they remember stories. Once you get past the jargon, the corporate world is an endless source of fascinating stories.
When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me and my desire to want to know him and his world became almost compulsive.