Babbage's Quotes & Sayings
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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

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

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed. —
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

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes. —
James Gleick