Charles Babbage Quotes

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

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.

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.