Charles Babbage

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science.

In the early days of the world, the burden of toil was placed upon the shoulders of the few, and the fruits of labor upon the many.

Projections are not prophecies; they are informed guesses based on current trends.

The economy of human time is of the first importance.

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

A considerable advantage is derived from the division of labor.

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of being thus expressed.

Telegraphs are machines for reproducing social relations at a distance.

I have always wished for a power of concentrating my attention on one object.

The select few who comprehend the system will obtain a great intellectual advantage.

Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society.

The possession of a good digestive system is worth more than a library of books.

Surely, since the world was created, it has never witnessed so felicitous a spectacle as this.

The circumstances of modern life have made the cultivation of the mind a necessity.

In mathematics we have a system of truths which cannot be disputed.

The moral effects of manufacturing establishments are generally bad.

I am myself a red republican.

The best way to make a fire is to rub two sticks together.

Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends is the division of labour.

The Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.