Charles Babbage Quotes

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.

The two million or so residents who live beneath the Heathrow flight path are accustomed to the noise. However, they are right to feel that any expansion would represent an unacceptable broken promise.

I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.

Chatterers are a menace.

Street lights, dog-doo and parking meters are not my cup of tea.

A less healthy America is not going to be as productive.

When I told people in Dubai that I am going to leave my job here and head to Mumbai, they were convinced that I will not survive in the dust, grime, pollution.

At What Cost' means so many things: go-gos were shut down for our good, but at what cost?

There's worse things in life than death.

Every day I have a tour bus that comes around my house and stops. You can hear them on their microphone. If you don't embrace it, it's going to destroy you.

I'm not a lawmaker, but I was thinking that if you have a really loud ring tone, maybe you should be stabbed in the ear?

America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

The music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, "It's too loud!"

Why do they collect garbarge at 5am? Why? It's garbage. It's not going to go bad again.

For the most sensitive among us the noise can be too much.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

Nobody is going to feel sorry for me if I've lost a dollar or $100m.

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.

The months fall to shards at my feet.

You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.

Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.