"Calculating machine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... what woman do you think could wish to live with you! I suppose Marian wanted a human being to live with, and not a calculating machine. You would drive any woman away. If you had feeling enough to have kicked him out of the house, and then beaten her black and blue for encouraging him, you would have been more of a man than you are: she would have loved you more. ...
— The Irrational Knot - Being the Second Novel of His Nonage • George Bernard Shaw
... do. I still think people should be in love and not just mated because a calculating machine says ...
— Mother America • Sam McClatchie
... taken for granted by both sides in the controversy that if our volitions can be proved to depend upon natural causation, as rigid in its sequences within the sphere of a human mind as within that of a calculating machine, there must be an end of the controversy; seeing that our volitions would be thus proved to be rigidly determined by those same principles of fixed order, or 'natural law,' which are external to, or independent of, the human mind—quite as much as they ...
— Mind and Motion and Monism • George John Romanes
... sense, or perceptive faculty, through the medium of self-expression on the part of the child. On the contrary, the very raison d'etre of the arithmetic lesson, as it is still given in many schools, is to destroy the arithmetical sense, and make the child an inefficient calculating machine, which, even when working, is too often inaccurate and clumsy, and which the slightest change of environment throws at once and ...
— What Is and What Might Be - A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular • Edmond Holmes
... Sinclair wrote to him, calling his attention to a statement of Babbage's that after a certain point his famous calculating machine, contrary to all expectation, suddenly introduced a new principle of numeration into a series of numbers (Extract from Babbage's Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. Babbage shows that a calculating machine can be constructed ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley |
