I can't make it fade.
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
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.
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.
There is nothing in the nature of a miracle that should render it incredible:;: its credibility depends upon the nature of the evidence by which it is supported. An event of extreme probability will not necessarily command our belief unless upon a sufficiency of proof; and so an event which we may regard as highly improbable may command our belief if it is sustained by sufficient evidence. So that the credibility or incredibility of an event does not rest upon the nature of the event itself, but depends upon the nature and sufficiency of the proof which sustains it.
Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
I think the death penalty's easier than life in prison.
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
Chair lifts need to be in some places so that we can get to wonderful views without having to hike to them.