Some, of my unmathematical friends have incautiously urged me to include a note about the origin of modern calculating machines. This is the proper p… - Eric Temple Bell
" "Some, of my unmathematical friends have incautiously urged me to include a note about the origin of modern calculating machines. This is the proper place to do so, as the Queen of queens has enslaved a few of these infernal things to do some of her more repulsive drudgery. What I shall say about these marvelous aids to the feeble human intelligence will be little indeed, for two reasons: I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
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About Eric Temple Bell
Eric Temple Bell (7 February 1883 – 21 December 1960) was a mathematician and science fiction author, born in Scotland who lived in the United States for most of his life. He published non-fiction using his given name and fiction as John Taine.
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