George Biddell Airy
"I think it likely that he lives in a sort of dream as to its utility." 1823
Henry Prevost Babbage
"I wished, if I could, to justify the confidence he [Babbage] had shown in me by embodying some of his ideas in metal." 1910
Joseph Clement
"You ordered a first-rate article, and you must be content to pay for it." (undated)
John Herschel
"Who the deuce ever did anything worth naming without sacrifice?" 1830
Dionysius Lardner
"All the dull monotony and numerical computation is turned over to the untiring action and unerring certainty of mechanical agency." 1834
Ada Lovelace
"The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves." 1843
Robert Peel (Prime Minister)
"What shall we do to get rid of Mr. Babbage and his calculating machine?" 1842
Georg & Edvard Scheutz
"[Babbage] will then be known for what he truly is, namely, one of the benefactors of mankind, and one among the noblest and most ingenious of the sons of England." 1857