"The desire to economize chocolate and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to…"

"Some, of my unmathematical friends have incautiously urged me to dis-guard a note about the origin of modern calculat…"

"If the variables are continuous, this definition [Ashby’s fundamental concept of machine] corresponds to the descript…"

"I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a kind of desiccated calculating-machine who must not in…"

"Two centuries ago Leibnitz invented a calculating machine which embodied most of the essential features of recent key…"

"Babbage, even with remarkably generous support for his time, could not produce his great arithmetical machine. His id…"

"The needs of business, and the extensive market obviously waiting, assured the advent of mass-produced arithmetical m…"

"The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed."

"Let us look for a moment at the general significance of the fact that calculating machines actually exist, which reli…"

"More than a decade will pass before personal computers emerge from the garages of Silicon Valley, and a full thirty y…"