200 FAMOUS QUOTES · COMPUTER
Read 200 of the best computer quotes about machines, technology, logic and calculation, from Charles Babbage, Nikola Tesla, Leibniz, Pascal and more.
“Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it.”
Charles Babbage
“The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.”
Charles Babbage
“One great advantage which we may derive from machinery is from the check which it affords against the inattention, the idleness, or the dishonesty of human agents.”
Charles Babbage
“At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.”
Charles Babbage
“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.”
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact.”
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“Nothing is without reason.”
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“The present is big with the future.”
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in first.”
Blaise Pascal
“Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge.”
George Boole
“Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.”
Augustus De Morgan
“Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”
Lewis Carroll
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.”
Lewis Carroll
“There is no royal road to geometry.”
Euclid
“Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth.”
Archimedes
“All things are numbers.”
Pythagoras
“For what is the heart, but a spring; and the nerves, but so many strings; and the joints, but so many wheels?”
Thomas Hobbes
“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
René Descartes
“Man is a machine so complicated that it is impossible to get a clear idea of the machine beforehand.”
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
“Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.”
Galileo Galilei
“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”
Francis Bacon
“We have also engine-houses, where are prepared engines and instruments for all sorts of motions.”
Francis Bacon
“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”
Francis Bacon
“It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that word.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Men are grown mechanical in head and in heart, as well as in hand.”
Thomas Carlyle