“'Tis too plain that with the material power the moral progress has not kept pace.”
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Computer Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · COMPUTER
Computer Quotes
Read 200 of the best computer quotes about machines, technology, logic and calculation, from Charles Babbage, Nikola Tesla, Leibniz, Pascal and more.
“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.”
Henry David Thoreau
TechnologyDistraction
“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
Mark Twain
InventionFunny
“Where does consciousness begin, and where end? Who can draw the line?”
Samuel Butler
Artificial IntelligenceConsciousness
“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
Jules Verne
MistakesScience
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
H. G. Wells
EducationFuture
“I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.”
Thomas Edison
InventionInnovation
“What you are will show in what you do.”
Thomas Edison
CharacterAction
“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
Nikola Tesla
FutureVision
“When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination.”
Nikola Tesla
ImaginationInvention
“The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.”
Nikola Tesla
InventionProgress
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
Alexander Graham Bell
FocusProductivity
“Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.”
Michael Faraday
ScienceWonder
“Work. Finish. Publish.”
Michael Faraday
ProductivityShipping
“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”
Lord Kelvin
PredictionsFunny
“It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.”
Henri Poincaré
LogicDiscovery
“We must know, we will know.”
David Hilbert
KnowledgeAmbition
“What we know is little, and what we are ignorant of is immense.”
Pierre-Simon Laplace
KnowledgeHumility
“Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.”
James Clerk Maxwell
LearningScience
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
Charles Darwin
KnowledgeConfidence
“The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
DataScience
“The more acute and ingenious men there are, the more do strange contrivances appear.”
Lao Tzu
TechnologyInvention
“The mechanic, who wishes to do his work well, must first sharpen his tools.”
Confucius
ToolsPreparation
“Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 12:12)
InformationLearning
“A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.”
The Bible (Proverbs 24:5)
KnowledgeStrength