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For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.
— Charles Babbage
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.
— Charles Babbage
Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
— Charles Babbage
An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.
— Charles Babbage
Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
— Charles Babbage
I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam,
— Charles Babbage
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
— Charles Babbage
If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.
— Charles Babbage
What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.
— Charles Babbage
Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.
— Charles Babbage
I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.
— Charles Babbage
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
— Charles Babbage
A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.
— Charles Babbage
