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Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible; if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple. - Charles Babbage

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English inventor, particularly a primitive calculating machine

Born:26th December, 1792
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Starsign: Capricorn

Author Keywords: Calculating, Machine, Primitive, Inventor, Particularly, English

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