Archimedes quotes

But even Archimedes was not free from the prevailing notion that geometry was degraded by being employed to produce anything useful. It was with difficulty that he was induced to stoop from speculation to practice. He was half ashamed of those inventions which were the wonder of hostile nations, and always spoke of them slightingly as mere amusements, as trifles in which a mathematician might be suffered to relax his mind after intense application to the higher parts of his science.

-1st Baron
  'Basil Montagu's edition of  The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England ', in the Edinburgh Review,  Jul.

An architect is only really a glorified tailor and if people want a suitaslong astheydon't ask for threesleeves or somethingit's do-able.

- Quinlan Terry
  In the Observer,7 Mar.