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• 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...
• engine n. 1. A piece of hardware that encapsulates some function but can't be used without some kind of front end.
  Today we have, especially, `print engine': the guts of a laser printer....
• engine: n. 1. A piece of hardware that encapsulates some function but can't be used without some kind of {front end}.
  Today we have, especially, `print engine': the guts of a laser printer....
• Cards? Luxury! I was at the smithy 18 hours a day forging gears for my analytical engine, Ada working her fingers to the bone assembling them on shafts.
  I used to dream of the day when I would finally get it all put together so that I could finally play 'Wumpus'....
• 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....
• FORTUNE PROVIDES QUESTIONS FOR THE GREAT ANSWERS: #15 A
  The Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Q: What was the greatest achievement in taxidermy?...
• Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...
• I could never make out what those damned dots meant.
  -- Lord Randolph Churchill, former Chancellor of the Exchequer -- regarding decimal poi...
• I wish these calculations had been executed by steam. -- Charles Babbage