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I have sacrificed time, health, and fortune, in the desire to complete these
Calculating Engines.  I have also declined several offers of great personal
advantage to myself.  But, notwithstanding the sacrifice of these advantages
for the purpose of maturing an engine of almost intellectual power, and
after expending from my own private fortune a larger sum than the government
of England has spent on that machine, the execution of which it only
commenced, I have received neither an acknowledgement of my labors, not even
the offer of those honors or rewards which are allowed to fall within the
reach of men who devote themselves to purely scientific investigations...
        If the work upon which I have bestowed so much time and thought were
a mere triumph over mechanical difficulties, or simply curious, or if the
execution of such engines were of doubtful practicability or utility, some
justification might be found for the course which has been taken; but I
venture to assert that no mathematician who has a reputation to lose will
ever publicly express an opinion that such a machine would be useless if
made, and that no man distinguished as a civil engineer will venture to
declare the construction of such machinery impracticable...
        And at a period when the progress of physical science is obstructed
by that exhausting intellectual and manual labor, indispensable for its
advancement, which it is the object of the Analytical Engine to relieve, I
think the application of machinery in aid of the most complicated and abtruse
calculations can no longer be deemed unworthy of the attention of the country.
In fact, there is no reason why mental as well as bodily labor should not
be economized by the aid of machinery.
                -- Charles Babbage, "The Life of a Philosopher"
 
Freebsd Fortunes 4:  502 of 2327

I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer.
                -- Kehlog Albran
 
Freebsd Fortunes 4:  503 of 2327

I have seen the Great Pretender and he is not what he seems.
 
Freebsd Fortunes 4:  504 of 2327

I have that old biological urge,
I have that old irresistible surge,
I'm hungry.
 
Freebsd Fortunes 4:  505 of 2327

I have the simplest tastes.  I am always satisfied with the best.
                -- Oscar Wilde
 
Freebsd Fortunes 4:  506 of 2327

I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.
                -- Richard Burton
 
Freebsd Fortunes 4:  507 of 2327

I have travelled the length and breadth of this country, and have talked with
the best people in business administration.  I can assure you on the highest
authority that data processing is a fad and won't last out the year.
                -- Editor in charge of business books at Prentice-Hall
                   publishers, responding to Karl V. Karlstrom (a junior
                   editor who had recommended a manuscript on the new
                   science of data processing), c. 1957
 
Freebsd Fortunes 4:  508 of 2327

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
                -- John D. Rockefeller
 
Freebsd Fortunes 4:  509 of 2327

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when
you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
                -- Poul Anderson
 
Freebsd Fortunes 4:  510 of 2327

I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere.
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