Analogue Calculating Machines

Famous quotes containing the words analogue, calculating and/or machines:

    “Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.”
    —Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)

    “[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair,
    Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem
    From insignificance.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)