| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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