Henry Maudslay famous quotes

First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it.
-- Henry Maudslay

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Avoid complexities. Make everything as simple as possible.
-- Henry Maudslay

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Keep a sharp lookout upon your materials; get rid of every pound of material you can do without; put to yourself the question what business has it to be there?, avoid complexities, and make everything as simple as possible.
-- Henry Maudslay

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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.

There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.

Why don't you light that candle ?

The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.