A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

Bill Gates wants people to think he’s Edison, when he’s really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn’t right… wealth isn’t the same thing as intelligence.

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we’re a long, long ways from that.

Don’t be evil- apparently people like it better than “Be good.

It’s unrated, which means it’s too confusing to possibly put a rating on.

I really haven’t liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world.

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.

The accuracy of a machine’s operations is essential to its success and effectiveness.

The Analytical Engine, when constructed, will be able to carry out anything that comes within the scope of mathematical analysis.

In mathematics, mistakes aren’t fatal – just annoying.

What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

Writing doesn’t mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.

I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.

Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

NASA has spin-offs, and it’s a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.

A SWALLOW, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds. A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings. The Swallow, finding her nest empty, lamented greatly and exclaimed: “Woe to me a stranger! that in this place where all others’ rights are protected, I alone should suffer wrong

To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.