"Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of the highest degree of accuracy. One of its numerous processes is to make multitudes of observations, and out of these to select only those which agree, or very nearly agree. If a hundred observations are made, the cook must be very unhappy if he cannot pick out fifteen or twenty which will do for serving up."

-- Charles Babbage

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“Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy becomes insufficient, artificial grammar becomes insufficient.”

Source : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. March 9, 2012.
“The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.”

Source : Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.36, Simon and Schuster
“...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?”
“Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.”

Source : Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.257, Simon and Schuster
“Retire? I will never retire.”
“Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.”
“Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.”

Source : Life Magazine, November 20, 1970.
“I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more direct - the greater the possibilities of making a direct - of making a statement.”

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