Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

The midfield are like a chef, trying to prise open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside.

Popular Topics
Creative, Food, Bear, Willing, Light, Quite, Difference, Poor, Brain, Living My Life, Feeling, Pleasures Of Life, Thing, Stage, Kindly, Drama, Guru, Gold, Night, Angry, Humble, Today, Character, Positive, Home, Wonderful, Comfortable, Name, America, I Like You, Hope, I Miss You, Afternoon, Things In Life, Life, Lifetime, Subject, English, Like, Curiosity, Peace Love, Body, Organization, Wonder, Achievement, Scholar, Smile, Journey, Things, Gossip
Charles Babbage

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

Character, Discussion, May, Office, Public
Same Author Quotes

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

Advantage, Human, Machinery, People, Technology, Time

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

Data, Errors, Failure, Inadequate, Mathematical Logic, Using

The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery. . . As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science.

Analysis, Development, Executed, Science

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

Abridged, Contrivance, Increase, Labour, Tools, Wells

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.

Babbage, Come, Confusion, Ideas, Two
Similar Quotes