 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 562 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's^cjtlculating machine. • It was an agreeable incident of two consecutive visits to Hartford,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1893 - 320 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...brains and without heart, too stupid to make a blunder ; which turns out results like a corn-sheller, and never grows any wiser or better, though it grind... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 564 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...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... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 452 pages
...precisely the same idea. He ought to have been proud of the accuracy of his mental adjustments. Driven certain factors, and a sound brain should always evolve...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... | |
 | Burroughs Corporation - 1910 - 200 pages
...whom the Burroughs has always meant a Better Day's Work at a less cost of Time, Work and Worry. 254078 "What a satire, by the -way, is that machine on the mere mathematician! A Frankenstein monster, a thing without brains and without a heart, too stupid to make a blunder; that... | |
 | George Frederick Gundelfinger - 1915 - 224 pages
...CIRCLES 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 turns out formula; like a corn-sheller, and never grows any wiser or better, though it grind a thousand bushels... | |
 | George Frederick Gundelfinger - 1915 - 224 pages
...pamphlets which she hoards away annually in the dark and dusty alcoves of our libraries. OSCULATING CIRCLES 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... | |
 | George Rostrevor Hamilton - 1921 - 172 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." 1 There we have the triumph — or the degradation — of intellect, " the faculty of connecting the... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - 1922 - 648 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...the mere mathematician! A Frankenstein-monster, a so thing without brains and without heart, too stupid to make a blunder; that turns out formulae like... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1879 - 820 pages
..."of the accuracy of his mental adjustments. Given certain factors, and a sound brain should alioays evolve the same fixed product with the certainty of Babbage's calculating machine." Somewhat akin to the unconscious recurrence of mental processes after considerable intervals of time... | |
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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... 
