"This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base."

-- George W. Bush

#People Quotes #Crowds Quotes #Wealth Quotes

“...even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I thought it reasonable that I should seek to work where the work was most abundant and the workers fewest.”
“Your goal is to launch an imperfect product and let people laugh at you.”
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
“For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to enjoy it because enjoying art is something they expect of themselves as civilized persons, but they're unsure how to do so. They aren't even sure which of the visible objects are art and which are furniture, clothes, hors d'oeuvres, or construction rubble, and whether a pile of dead and decomposing rats is deliberate art or just another pile of decomposing rats.”
“God of ages, Lord of Time, mine is the right to be wrong.”
“I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?”
“In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).”, p.8
“Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.”

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