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Charles Babbage Quotes

The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.

Charles Babbage

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: mathematician
Nationality: english
Birth: December 26, 1791 - October 18, 1871

Topics

Effort Human Depend Frame Force

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

Maurice Sendak

Truth Hope Children Myself Parents

I get a very vague idea and - perhaps because I once was a journalist, or perhaps because that's what made me want to be a journalist - I go off and explore it for a bit, rather than mapping out a plot and then filling in the research.

Aminatta Forna

Me Research Go Want Explore Out

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

Tony Parsons

I Am Sweet Toughness Old Through Am

There aren't many shy writers left.

Jay McInerney

Shy Left Many Writers

When Thomas and John Knoll launched Photoshop 1.0 in 1990, the software couldn't even handle color images. But their offerings got the startup noticed by Apple and Adobe, both of whom became key to the fledgling company's later success.

Jay Samit

Success Color Key Apple Software

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

Jose Manuel Barroso

Family Mother People Me University

To me, making a CD is like writing a book.

Johnny Van Zant

Me Writing Book Like Making CD

What I love is a peanut butter and pickle sandwich. I'll just have peanut butter and bananas, then peanut butter and pickles. Peanut butter and chocolate I don't recommend.

Dianne Wiest

Love Love Is Chocolate Peanut Butter

I get up early, go to bed late, and sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. And I pray a lot.

Courtney B. Vance

Early Late Bed Go Sometimes Up

In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.

Clarence Clemons

Life Music Spiritual You Find Same

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

Arabella Weir

Opportunity Learn Luxury Now Cost

I may not be able to outsmart too many people, but I can outwork 'em.

Woody Hayes

People I Can May Too Many People Too