A Tool Is Usually More

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.

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.

Some Kinds Of Nails, Such As Those Used For Defending The Soles Of Coarse Shoes, Called Hobnails, Require A Particular Form Of The Head, Which Is Made By The Stroke Of A Die.

The Possessors Of Wealth Can Scarcely Be Indifferent To Processes Which, Nearly Or Remotely Have Been The Fertile Source Of Their Possessions.

In Mathematics We Have Long Since Drawn The Rein, And Given Over A Hopeless Race.