Charles Babbage Quotes

The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism.

Charles Babbage

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• I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Films

• Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Decision
  • Military
  • Force

• There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Guy
  • Perception
  • Hollywood

• Small aim is a crime.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Small
  • Crime
  • Aim

• Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • American
  • Control

• There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Think
  • Space
  • Volunteer

• No hero is mortal till he dies.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Hero
  • Dies
  • Till

• I will come to know when my time's up, and when it is, I will exit gracefully. I will not hang around till I am kicked out.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Time
  • Exit
  • Kicked

• I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Bad
  • Feeling

• I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Done
  • Think
  • Always

• The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Work
  • Long

• The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Rock
  • Said
  • Piano

• I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Like
  • Child
  • Embarrassing

• I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get away.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Life
  • Real
  • Fast

• Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes, people who can't move easily at night, students.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Night
  • Reach

• A lot of the time, when people meet someone in a wheelchair, or with some disability, it's the first thing they notice, but they don't know how to react.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Time
  • Disability

• For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Time
  • Small
  • Health

• To me, 'selling out' means everyone bought a ticket.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Selling
  • Ticket

• The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Perfection

• My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Black
  • Woman
  • Brand

• In America, people really love movies here and it's part of the culture. Even in Germany, still sometimes, the theater is always bigger than movies. It's more art. Movies are more popcorn. Here, movies are really an art form.

  

  Baran Odar
  • People
  • Art
  • America

• Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.

  

  Ellen Langer
  • Knowing
  • Same Thing

• The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism.

  

  Charles Babbage