The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.

There was an immediate benefit to virtualization, ... We went from 12 servers in two data centers to two servers in one data center and no performance hit.

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

I guess I'm more of a direct person than an indirect one.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.