A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on.
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.
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

