Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.

Alan Guth
Alan Guth

We don't have a solid theory of how the universe originated, but that doesn't mean we have to invoke a deity.

Albert J. Nock
Albert J. Nock

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

Anne-Marie Slaughter
Anne-Marie Slaughter

When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.

Arkady Volozh
Arkady Volozh

I think Yandex is something in between two different cultures. One originated from the old Soviet culture of the scientific institute. It was a free atmosphere of scientists, maybe too free because nobody cared about making money. Another origin is something close to what you usually see in California startups.

Arkady Volozh
Arkady Volozh

Yandex originated from a company called Arkadia, which created two search programs under the DOS operating system in 1990.

Avicii
Avicii

House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.

Bill Gross
Bill Gross

In terms of economic growth, PIMCO originated the famous phrase the 'new normal.'

Charles A. Beard
Charles A. Beard

American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in the actual experience gained by generation after generation of English colonists in managing their own political affairs. The Revolution did not make a breach in the continuity of their institutional life.

Charles Stanley
Charles Stanley

The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.