"It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted……" — Charles Babbage
"It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances."
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Charles Babbage
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62 Quotes by Charles Babbage
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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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In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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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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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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