Charles Babbage Quotes

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

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• I always watch the work I do.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Work
  • Always
  • Watch

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Art
  • Science
  • Light

• Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Bad
  • Song
  • Beginning

• Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Time
  • Simple
  • Investment

• Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Time
  • Period

• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • God
  • School

• We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Time
  • God
  • Spirit

• I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Time
  • Think
  • Really

• I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Me

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Up
  • Long
  • Night

• Work is both my living and my pleasure.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Living

• I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• In maybe 1963, we had 'Collier's Encyclopedia,' and they sent us their yearly LP. I heard the Beatles talking on there. That was the first time I tried altering my voice, doing a Liverpudlian accent.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Doing

• There's a store in my neighborhood called Futon World. I like that name, 'Futon World.' Makes me think of a magical place that gets less and less comfortable over time.

  

  Demetri Martin
  • Time
  • World

• It's funny, but as time goes by, I get stopped in airports all the time, and it's always about 'Shannon's Deal.'

  

  Jamey Sheridan
  • Time
  • Funny

• I think of companies like Nokia having anthropologists who study how people use cell phones, who do that kind of commercial and marketing work, selling out to corporations. I wonder if that has something to do with the image of the more innocent anthropologist, now gone.

  

  Lily King
  • People
  • Work
  • Wonder

• Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

  

  Eric Alterman
  • Military

• Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

  

  Charles Babbage
  • Time
  • Work
  • Light