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I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn't help unless the majority is active and votes - but the opposition minority votes a much greater proportion, so we often lose by a narrow margin.

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Charles Babbage

The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

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

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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

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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.

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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

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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.

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