"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting……" — Charles Babbage
"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
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Charles Babbage
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62 Quotes by Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage has 62 quotes on this site.
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the…
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in…
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In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
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The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may…
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I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with…
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
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A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is…
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The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible;…
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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
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More Accumulate Quotes
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
— Henry Adams
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In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
— Arthur Bloch
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I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that…
— Jo Brand
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations…
— William J. Brennan
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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
— David Byrne
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I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
— Andrew Carnegie
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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
— Noam Chomsky
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We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's…
— Arianna Huffington
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
— A J P Taylor
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The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.
— Wayne Dyer
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Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the…
— Al Gore
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