"The difference between a tool and a machine……" — Charles Babbage
"The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation."
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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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The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may…
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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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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I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading,…
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Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from…
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Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted…
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In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself…
— John Stuart Mill
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It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.
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I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of…
— Georges Bataille
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I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides…
— William Hazlitt
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