“Propose to any Englishman any principle or 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.”
Charles Babbage
“Wealthy people with means should be required to pay something on debts and not be able to walk away from them.”
Wayne Abernathy
“The heart is the only broken instrument that works.”
T. E. Kalem
“They come in and they actually fly the instrument approach to verify the signals put out by the instruments are correct.”
Jim Peters
“First of all I should explain that synthesizers themselves, I don't consider them instruments, they are instrument makers, because you can program them to be whatever sound you want.”
Herbie Hancock
“CLARIONET, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet --two clarionets.”
Ambrose Bierce
“At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.”
Mick Fleetwood