================================================ Subject: Re: NCR: See ya soon From: "creed -7m3 - live" To: Date: Sat 1 Sep 2001 00:19:09 -0400 ================================================ Thanks Agie, The break from the list does wonders! Be it short or lengthy. I didn't realize that Lee unsubscribed from the list. It is great to hear from you again. Talk to you later. Jim On Fri, 2001-08-31 at 21:02, Agnieszka wrote: > Hey ! > I was out of town and offline for a few days, I got back few hours ago. It was sad to read or flip through the mail. I was really very sorry, that Lee and Jim decided to leave, and all this fighting, now I see Jim is back. Jim, I'm glad you're here again. > Good to see you back Missy and Ewa. Ewa, do you know your father wanted actually to unsubscribe you :) ? > > But what I'm trying to say is I'm unsubscribing, but just for a while. I think I need to take a little rest, I feel I'm tired of the list. You know I'll be back, probably soon. If anyone wants - you know my e-mail address. > > Take care > > Agie -- I have sacrificed time, health, and fortune, in the desire to complete these Calculating Engines. I have also declined several offers of great personal advantage to myself. But, notwithstanding the sacrifice of these advantages for the purpose of maturing an engine of almost intellectual power, and after expending from my own private fortune a larger sum than the government of England has spent on that machine, the execution of which it only commenced, I have received neither an acknowledgement of my labors, not even the offer of those honors or rewards which are allowed to fall within the reach of men who devote themselves to purely scientific investigations... If the work upon which I have bestowed so much time and thought were a mere triumph over mechanical difficulties, or simply curious, or if the execution of such engines were of doubtful practicability or utility, some justification might be found for the course which has been taken; but I venture to assert that no mathematician who has a reputation to lose will ever publicly express an opinion that such a machine would be useless if made, and that no man distinguished as a civil engineer will venture to declare the construction of such machinery impracticable... And at a period when the progress of physical science is obstructed by that exhausting intellectual and manual labor, indispensable for its advancement, which it is the object of the Analytical Engine to relieve, I think the application of machinery in aid of the most complicated and abtruse calculations can no longer be deemed unworthy of the attention of the country. In fact, there is no reason why mental as well as bodily labor should not be economized by the aid of machinery. -- Charles Babbage, "The Life of a Philosopher" To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp