The necessity for its maker, if he wishes to remain in business, to produce an efficient machine which shall at the same time be cheap, and therefore must be as simple as possible, has acted as a kind of Geddes' Axe, (sic) sweeping away a number of inessential contrivances […]

Shift registers, as Leibniz had demonstrated 260 years earlier, could perform binary arithmetic simply by shifting an entire row of binary digits one position to the right or left.

We're not catering to the yobbos. We'd rather have a smaller crowd of nice people that are really into the game than a whole mass of uncouth people

[…] the play, rather than tingling with the anguish of a man torn between his country and his conscience, is merely misted over with sadness.