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“On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
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“XXI век. Старый айтишник читает внуку сказку Пушкина:
– Стал он кликать золотую рыбку…
– Дедушка, почему рыбку?
– Ну не было тогда мышек, рыбкой кликали!”
― #Панталоныфракжилет: Что такое языковые заимствования и как они работают
– Стал он кликать золотую рыбку…
– Дедушка, почему рыбку?
– Ну не было тогда мышек, рыбкой кликали!”
― #Панталоныфракжилет: Что такое языковые заимствования и как они работают
“The Victorian era was an age of superlatives and larger-than-life characters, and as far as that goes, Dr. Wildman Whitehouse fit right in: what Victoria was to monarchs, Dickens to novelists, Burton to explorers, Robert E. Lee to generals, Dr. Wildman Whitehouse was to assholes.”
― Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing – A Brilliant Collection on Science and Technology from Newton to Star Wars
― Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing – A Brilliant Collection on Science and Technology from Newton to Star Wars
“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”
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“...It would hardly be a waste of time if sometimes even the most advanced students in the cognitive sciences were to pay a visit to their ancestors. It is frequently claimed in American philosophy departments that, in order to be a philosopher, it is not necessary to revisit the history of philosophy. It is like the claim that one can become a painter without having ever seen a single work by Raphael, or a writer without having ever read the classics. Such things are theoretically possible; but the 'primitive' artist, condemned to an ignorance of the past, is always recognizable as such and rightly labeled as naïf. It is only when we consider past projects revealed as utopian or as failures that we are apprised of the dangers and possibilities for failure for our allegedly new projects. The study of the deeds of our ancestors is thus more than an atiquarian pastime, it is an immunological precaution.”
― The Search for the Perfect Language
― The Search for the Perfect Language
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