November 2011
36 posts
Babbage
The English mathematician Charles Babbage, who conceived programmable computation, wrote to the young poet Tennyson. “In your otherwise beautiful poem,” he said, “one verse reads,”
Every moment dies a man,
Every moment one is born.
” … If this were true,” he went on, “the population of the world would be at a standstill. In truth, the rate of birth...
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins...”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (in Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -A scandal in Bohemia-)
jaidefinichon:
ASÍ ESTÁ MEJOR JAJA
arissima:
Tango para fumadores <3
