"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."

-- Simon Newcomb

#Airplane Quotes #Space Quotes #Machines Quotes

“I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.”
“It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.”
“Every now and again I want to go to the beach and be in the sun, but that's a very rare feeling, so I could live in London, definitely.”
“I haven't really reached my peak yet.”
“Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay, The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean away: Thine eyes at last look far and clear, thou liftest high thy hand To spread the light of liberty world-wide for every land.”
“To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big.”
“The number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer.”

Source : Jeremy Bernstein (1981). “The analytical engine: computers--past, present, and future”, William Morrow &Company
“One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.”

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