Charles Babbage Quotes

The purpose creates the machine.

Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.

Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.

I loved my computer; it's a tool. A tool increases your mechanical advantages. It allows you to use your strengths and talents to greater advantage, and that's what tools do, and that's what my computer does for me. It's not my toy, it's my tool.

We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

We can go into no mechanic shop, into no manufactory of any description, upon no farm or plantation, or travel a mile on our railroads or in our steamboats, without seeing evidence of our originality and witnessing the fruits of our ingenuity and enterprise.

Now we shall see whether I can build anything but automobiles, tractors and ships.

In my village there was no chance to study machines.

Machines cannot make machines, unless back of them all are the brains and toil of men.

I am not a politician. I am an engineer who has spent most of his career working in factories that manufacture the world's most advanced devices.

A brilliant mind having a eureka moment could not create an Intel microprocessor containing a billion transistors any more than one person could dream up a Boeing 787 from scratch.

An automobile has about 10,000 moving parts, right? An airplane has two million, and it has to stay up in the air.

Science, engineering, and technology have transformed the infrastructure of the modern world and have a vital role to play at the heart of policy making.

'Make in India' is great, but 'Make It Happen in India' is even greater. Make It Happen in India is more than manufacturing. It's about training, about education, about societal development and automation and engineering.

Civil engineers build bridges. Electrical engineers, power grids. Software engineers, apps. From the engineers who created the Great Pyramids to the engineers who are designing and developing tomorrow's autonomous vehicles, these visionaries and their tangible creations are inextricably linked.

It has always been my dream to work for a manufacturer team.

I like modern efficiencies and functionality.

If you build a robot, you're welding, machining sculpting, casting, dealing with electronics and hydraulics.

I just really love building chips.

I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture.

Some countries were able to turn their manufacturing operations into advanced technology areas. South Korea is a great example of this, and manufacturing there is done using advanced technological methods.