Charles Babbage Quotes

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

Continue to study and learn new skills.

It's lovely to have a part that requires you to learn something that's also interesting.

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.

My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.

I think I really benefited from going to college.

I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through.

If you ever get to a point where you stop learning, you will find your professional options and your personal satisfaction severely curtailed.

I love reading about new advances in my industry. I love feeding my brain.

I've had the career experience. I've had the experience of taking care of myself. I'm going to college because I genuinely want to learn.

The most important thing you can do for yourself is get an education. Learn, listen, and respond. You have to study and practice to get better at your craft and to widen your skill set.

Simply writing a Ph.D. or academic book was unlikely to play much of a role in helping shape people's lives as I wanted.

I definitely would like to go to university.

I'm forever being told, and intrinsically understand, that people want to study at different times in their lives, often inspired to do so when they see the practical benefits of their studies.

Lifelong learning is becoming commonplace, with people studying at different times when they see the benefits of doing so.

I like what I read, I find it intellectually engaging and I don't really have that much time, so I gotta make every bit count. I read magazines and stuff like that, but if I'm going to read a book, I want to come out smarter. It's not to escape, it's to learn.

I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.

I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

It [further education] is most essential,otherwise I would not have educated my sons. I learnt the hard way.Maybe if I had some education my success and growth would have been quicker.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something.