Walter Isaacson Quotes

The Industrial Revolution Was Based On Two Grand Concepts That Were Profound In Their Simplicity. Innovators Came Up With Ways To Simplify Endeavors By Breaking Them Into Easy, Small Tasks That Could Be Accomplished On Assembly Lines. Then, Beginning In The Textile Industry, Inventors Found Ways To Mechanize Steps So That They Could Be Performed By Machines, Many Of Them Powered By Steam Engines. Babbage, Building On Ideas From Pascal And Leibniz, Tried To Apply These Two Processes To The Production Of Computations, Creating A Mechanical Precursor To The Modern Computer. His Most Significant Conceptual Leap Was That Such Machines Did Not Have To Be Set To Do Only One Process, But Instead Could Be Programmed And Reprogrammed Through The Use Of Punch Cards. Ada Saw The Beauty And Significance Of That Enchanting Notion, And She Also Described An Even More Exciting Idea That Derived From It: Such Machines Could Process Not Only Numbers But Anything That Could Be Notated In Symbols.

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