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“The world tried to crush you,” I say, gently now, “and you refused to be shattered.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Restore Me

“In natural science, Nature has given us a world and we’re just to discover its laws. In computers, we can stuff laws into it and create a world.”
― Alan Kay

“Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.”
― Charles Babbage

“occupation of the mind is such a source of pleasure that it can relieve even the pain of a headache;”
― Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher [Annotated]