Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
“Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.”
“On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”