Charles Babbage Quotes

• In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

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• A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

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• Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.

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

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• That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

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• Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

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• Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton’s, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

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• 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.

  Charles Babbage

• It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

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

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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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• A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.

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Charles Babbage (32)

Birth:	26th December, 1791
Death:	18th October, 1871
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Inventor, Mathematician, Mechanical Engineer, Philosopher

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Charles Babbage was born in London, England. He was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer. He  is best remembered for originating the concept of a programmable computer. Considered a "father of the computer", Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer that eventually led to more complex designs.

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