I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

