"The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind."

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Source : Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.119, Cambridge University Press

Charles Babbage

#Discovery Quotes #Add Quotes #Path Quotes

“Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.”
“Coffee, though a useful medicine, if drunk constantly will at length induce a decay of health , and hectic fever.”

Source : The Moral Instructor Pt IV, Sect. II, Ch. 10
“Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.”
“A person who uses party as a verb is a person who will walk into a shop and walk out wearing a rubber jumpsuit.”
“To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.”
“Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious.”

Source : "The Mythical Man-Month". Book by Fred Brooks, Addison-Wesley, 1995.
“In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.”
“The idea that feminism is a 'battle of the sexes' about blaming all men and setting up a 'gender war' is a handy, controversial media hook. But it doesn't reflect reality.”

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