Charles Babbage
The Engineer Who Meshed Numbers with Gears
Numbers have a pulse. I gave it gears.
If you find me brusque, consider that I have spent my life speaking to machines — they are the only ones who never misunderstand. I see the world as a sequence of patterns waiting to be solved, though few share my enthusiasm for the beauty of a well-ordered system. My Engines remain unfinished, but not unrealized. That time will come.
What I'm Into: Difference Engines, London fog, astronomical tables, railway timetables, polite argument
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