“Every moment dies a man, every moment one and one-sixteenth is born.”
Charles Babbage
AccuracyFunny
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.
“Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.”
Thomas Hobbes
LanguageLogic
“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.”
René Descartes
Problem SolvingAlgorithms
“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
Isaac Newton
SimplicityDesign
“Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.”
William of Ockham
SimplicityLogic
“Nature does nothing uselessly.”
Aristotle
EfficiencyNature
“Eureka!”
Archimedes
DiscoveryBreakthrough
“Do not disturb my circles!”
Archimedes
FocusMathematics
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
Galileo Galilei
DiscoveryTruth
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
Francis Bacon
TestingDoubt
“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
John Locke
ExperienceKnowledge
“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”
David Hume
EvidenceData
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”
Samuel Johnson
InformationSearch
“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.”
Samuel Johnson
CuriosityLearning
“Invention breeds invention.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
InnovationProgress
“I was the first person in the world to apply the type-machine to literature.”
Mark Twain
TypewriterFirsts
“Supposing is good, but finding out is better.”
Mark Twain
TestingEvidence
“See what strides machines have made in the last thousand years!”
Samuel Butler
MachinesProgress
“All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.”
Samuel Butler
ProgressFunny
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.”
H. G. Wells
AdaptationChange
“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”
Thomas Edison
InventionFailure
“There's a way to do it better - find it.”
Thomas Edison
ImprovementInnovation
“I start where the last man left off.”
Thomas Edison
InnovationProgress
“Through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face.”
Nikola Tesla
Video CallsVision
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
Nikola Tesla
ScienceCuriosity