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.
It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and … - Charles Babbage
It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and …
- Charles Babbage
What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it. - Charles Babbage
What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.
[In response to Alfred Tennyson's poem "Vision of Sin," which included the line "Every moment dies a man, every moment one is born."] If this were tr… - Charles Babbage
[In response to Alfred Tennyson's poem "Vision of Sin," which included the line "Every moment dies a man, every moment one is born."] If this were tr…
For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles. - Charles Babbage
For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.
The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to … - Charles Babbage
The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to …
The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures. - Charles Babbage
The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work. - Charles Babbage
I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.
The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind. - Charles Babbage
The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. - Charles Babbage
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
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