"What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it."

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Source : Charles Babbage (1864). “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher”, p.1, London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green

Charles Babbage

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“If I have the power to post 'Happy Birthday' on someone's Facebook page and make them feel really good, it feels really good to make other people feel really good. I love it. I'm a huge Facebook and Twitter person. And I love talking to my fans. It's fun.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The show is escapism. If you look back to when I was in college, all the girls in the sorority houses were gathered around watching soap operas. That was the escapism, the show that was giving you something you couldn't have. Now, you go into any sorority house, there are 50 to 100 girls piled in watching The Bachelor. We are the modern-day soap opera.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“Slime him, sis," Dan urged, "Make him a redcoat.”
“They always say the hottest love has the coldest end.”
“I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.”
“As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.”
“It is difficult to make good scalable use of a CPU like you can of a graphics card. You certainly don't want 'better or worse' physics or AI in your game”
“If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.”

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