 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1868 - 434 pages
...up precisely the same idea. He ought to have been proud of the accuracy of his mental adjustments. Given certain factors, and a sound brain should always...evolve the same fixed product with the certainty of Babbage'a calculating machine. What a satire, by the way, is that machine on the mere mathematician... | |
 | Treasury - 1868 - 148 pages
...than time and space, and yet nothing provokos me less, for I never think about them. diaries Lamb. B BABBAGE'S CALCULATING MACHINE. What a satire, by the...way, is that machine on the mere mathematician ! A Frankenstein monster, a thing without brains and without heart, too stupid to make a blunder ; that... | |
 | 1879 - 978 pages
...speaking for him, and meaning no doubt that he was proud, " of the accuracy of his mental adjustments. .Given certain factors, and a sound brain should always...with the certainty of Babbage's calculating machine." Somewhat akin to the unconscious recurrence of mental processes after considerable intervals of time... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pages
...up precisely the same idea. He ought to have been proud of the accuracy of his mental adjustments. Given certain factors, and a sound brain should always...same fixed product with the certainty of Babbage's calculating-machine. • — — What a satire, by the way, is that machine on the mere mathematician... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1879 - 510 pages
...up precisely thi' same idea. He ought to have been proud of the accuracy of his mental adjustments. Given certain factors, and a sound brain should always...to make a blunder ; that turns out results like a cornsheiler, and never grows any wiser or better, though it grind a thousand bushels of them ! I have... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1880 - 458 pages
...speaking for him, and meaning no doubt that he was proud, ' of the accuracy of his mental adjustments. Given certain factors, and a sound brain should always...with the certainty of Babbage's calculating machine.' Somewhat akin to the unconscious recurrence of mental processes after considerable intervals of time... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 436 pages
...up precisely the same idea. He ought to have been proud of the accuracy of his mental adjustments. Given certain factors, and a sound brain should always...machine. What a satire, by the way, is that machine 1 Note C. on the mere mathematician ! A Frankensteinmonster, a tiling without bruins and without heart,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 350 pages
...up precisely the same idea. He ought to have been proud of the accuracy of his mental adjustments. Given certain factors, and a sound brain should always...with the certainty of Babbage's calculating machine. " It was an agreeable incident of two consecutive visits to Hartford, Conn., that I met there the late... | |
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... conversation with the Huma daily during that whole interval of years. On the contrary, he had never once thought of the odious fowl until the recurrence of precisely the same circumstances brought up precisely the same idea. He ought to have been... 
