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Re: quotation
Posted:
Aug 15, 1996 9:37 PM
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> "Also the astronomers surely will not have to continue to exercise the
> patience which is required for computation. It is this that deters them
> from computing or correcting tables, from the construction of
> Ephemerides, from working on hypotheses, anf form discussions of
> observations with each other. For it is unworthy of excellent men to
> lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely
> be relegated to anyone else if machines were used."
An AltaVista search for "unworthy of excellent men" turned up 10
web pages. 1 says Babbage, 1 pointer is stale, the other
8 say Leibnitz (although one had "(?)" after the name).
Documents 1-10 of 10 matching some of the query terms, in no particular order.
Cognitive and Neural Systems: Michael Beddows
Michael Beddows. Graduate Student Department of Cognitive and
Neural Systems Boston University 677 Beacon
St. Boston, MA 02215. Beddows@cns.bu.edu (617)...
http://cns-web.bu.edu/pub/beddows/hp.html
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The List: Version 2.0. Started by parrott@usc.edu. "Though this
be madness, yet there is method in 't." -- William
Shakespeare Confuscius say,"Man who...
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~parrott/List.html
- size 20K - 5 Jun 95
Benefits and Advantages of an Integrated Mathematics and Computer Science
Benefits and advantages of an integrated Mathematics and Computer
Science degree. December 1993. T.C. Hurley
Department of Mathematics, University College.
http://tedser.ucg.ie/benefits.html
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Charles Babbage. "It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours
like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be
relegated to anyone else if...
http://marie.mit.edu/~bruen/babbage.html
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E0947. COMPUTING IN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY: THE EARLY DAYS. Robert
Langridge, Computer Graphics
Laboratory, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143,...
http://www.hwi.buffalo.edu/aca/IUCr/cga17/abstracts/E0947.html
- size 2K - 23 Apr 96
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Some of My Favorite Quotes. TV Show: When we are boys, we want to
be just like our fathers. When we are
teenagers, we want to have nothing to do with our..
http://rvl1.ecn.purdue.edu/~gnelson/quote.html
- size 5K - 19 Jun 96
WinaWeb -Mopjes
WinaWeb Overzicht] [Mopjes Overzicht]
_______________________________ From:
kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov...
http://hagar.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/~wina/ontspanning/jokes/science.11.html
- size 57K - 4 Oct 95
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Fourth Grade Wizards. "It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours
like slaves in the labor of calculation which
could be relegated to anyone else..
http://davednet.daviess.k12.ky.us/~susan/portfoli.htm
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6.4 QUOTES ____________________________________________ "There
is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers...
http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~nienhuys/scijokes/sj64.txt
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Some of My Favorite Quotes. Buddhist Proverb: Everyone is given the
key to the gates of Heaven; The same key
opens the gates of Hell. J. W. von Goethe:...
http://cs.iastate.edu/~honavar/quotes.html
- size 6K - 26 Jun 96
John A. Wasser, Software Engineer
wasser@tiac.net http://www.tiac.net/users/wasser
"I work on IBM PC clones but I use Macintoshes"
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