Perhaps It Would Be Better

No Person Will Deny That The Highest Degree Of Attainable Accuracy Is An Object To Be Desired, And It Is Generally Found That The Last Advances Towards Precision Require A Greater Devotion Of Time, Labour, And Expense, Than Those Which Precede Them.

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.

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.

Long Intervals Frequently Elapse Between The Discovery Of New Principles In Science And Their Practical Application... Those Intellectual Qualifications, Which Give Birth To New Principles Or To New Methods, Are Of Quite A Different Order From Those Which Are Necessary For Their Practical Application.

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.