Difference Engine Quotes

#1. Babbage's Three Laws of Difference Engines
First Law: A difference engine must have at least six cogs.
Second Law: A difference engine must be able to operate a loom.
Third law: A difference engine must be able to kill a man, should the mood so take it.

Gideon Defoe

#2. This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely tabulate, and is incapable of developing, the Analytical Engine can either tabulate or develope.

Ada Lovelace

#3. Turing knew of Babbage's work, and the universal Turing machine can be seen as a reincarnation of Difference Engine No. 2. In fact, Turing had gone much further, and provided computing with a solid theoretical basis,

Simon Singh

#4. She was the angel. My guardian angel disguised as the fucking grim reaper.

Mary Martel

#5. Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

Ronald A. Heifetz

#6. The worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves,

Oscar Wilde

#7. I'm afraid for him because every day he has to fight the person he is, to be the person he wants to be.

B.B. Reid

#8. There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a hottest part implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.

Richard Davisson

#9. I'm a part of a program called Toyota's Engines of Change Program. The message is that anyone can make a difference in their community or for whatever cause they feel strongly about. Everyone can be an Engine of Change.

Aaron Peirsol

#10. The world we create in our minds shapes the ultimate reality where we live

Bryant McGill

#11. March on, the Lord is our General.

Swami Vivekananda

#12. There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth.

Faith Sullivan

#13. Theodore Finch, April 3. Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!

Jennifer Niven

#14. Like any big company, they've got a brand name, and they've got to keep extending it. Because the reality is, there's not a whole lot of difference between their search (engine) and anyone else's.

John Tinker