"That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine."

-- Charles Babbage

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“The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is based upon one tradition that has been waddling along for the last fifty years, growing in size and ungainliness, and is essentially defining the way we do everything. My view is that todayâ€™s computer world is based on techie misunderstandings of human thought and human life. And the imposition of inappropriate structures throughout the computer is the imposition of inappropriate structures on the things we want to do in the human world.”
“Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba.”
“Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins with the simple act of attention.”
“Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.”

Source : Renee Carlino, Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire, Gail McHugh (2014). “Just A Touch: The Atria Indie Author 2014 Sampler”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
“I was living in a house with 11 dogs and all I thought about was dogs. I never had sex with any of them though.”

Source : Source: www.bookbrowse.com
“Go! dive into the Southern Sea, and when Th'ast found, to trouble the nice sight of men, A swelling pearl, and such whose single worth Boasts all the wonders which the seas bring forth, Give it Endymion's love, whose ev'ry tear Would more enrich the skilful jeweller.”
“I know the strengths and weaknesses of my teammates. I make my passing decisions accordingly”
“Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.”

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