Charles Babbage Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], '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 qu	Computers
2	I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam. Notes: Babbage said this in 1821 while he and John Herschel were proofreading mathematical tables for the Astronomical Society.	Computers
3	The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism. Notes: Babbage said this with regard to his Analytical Engine.	Computers
4	Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossiblity in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling	Computers

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