You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine
on the future progress of science. I live in a country
which is incapable of estimating it.
-- Charles Babbage
Related:
Worthless.
-- Sir George Bidell Airy, KCB, MA, LLD DCL, FRS, FRAS
(Astronomer Royal of Great Britain), estimating for the
Chancellor of the Exchequer the potential value of the
"analytical engine" invented by Charles Babbage, September
15, 1842....