Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.
For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.
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.
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
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.
In the end all books are written for your friends.
Those who understand evil pardon it.
I don't like the idea that I am going to come back as an ant or a sparrow if I don't get along in the great karma of life.
I feel like art imitates life and life imitates art.