"Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction of machinery in the rank of a demonstrative science. The day will arrive when no school of mechanical drawing will be thought complete without teaching it."

-- Charles Babbage

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“I don't have any trouble believing that you would avoid something seemingly perfect because you're in something you really want to prove to yourself you can do right.”

Source : Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.
“It always feels good to win, it's always tough to lose.”
“My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.”
“The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.”
“No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God”
“Taking a song and bringing it to life in a professional recording studio can be an intimidating process at first; I know it certainly was for me. So to be able to offer support and guidance to an emerging singer-songwriter is a huge honor. I look forward to playing a role in such an exciting time of someone's songwriting career.”
“One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.”
“He supposed he knew, rationally, that she wasn't the prettiest woman in the world, but if his eyes saw any imperfections, his heart didn't care.”

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