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)

    “Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.”
    —Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)