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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... "
Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher - Page 315
1865
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The CEO of the Sofa

P. J. O'Rourke - 2007 - 292 pages
...Babbage's mechanical calculating device and foresees the whole pathetic computer age: What a satire is that machine on the mere mathematician! A Frankenstein-monster,...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. Holmes calls it the...
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The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 2005 - 341 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...without heart, too stupid to make a blunder ; that turns oat formulae like a corn, shelter, and never grows any wiser or better, though it grind a thousand...
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Literature and Life, Book 2

Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1927 - 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...heart, too stupid to make a blunder; that turns out formulae like a cornsheller, and never grows any wiser or better, though it grind a thousand bushels...
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The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature ..., Volume 26

Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 452 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, toQ stupid to make a blunder ; that...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1

1858 - 1016 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 widi the certainty of Babbage's calculating machine. What a satire, by the way, is that machine on...
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