Now, I have a great affinity for Charles Babbage because his hair is always completely unkempt like this in every single picture. (Laughter) He was a very wealthy man, and a sort of, part of the aristocracy of Britain, and on a Saturday night in Marylebone, were you part of the intelligentsia of that period, you would have been invited round to his house for a soiree — and he invited everybody: kings, the Duke of Wellington, many, many famous people — and he would have shown you one of his mechanical machines.
Ho una grande affinità con Charles Babbage perché i suoi capelli sono completamente spettinati in tutte le fotografie. (Risate) Era un uomo molto ricco, che faceva parte dell'aristocrazia britannica, e il sabato sera a Marylebone, se facevate parte dell'intellighenzia di quel periodo, sareste stati invitati in questa casa per una serata -- ed egli invitò tutti: i reali, il Duca di Wellington, moltissimi personaggi famosi e vi avrebbe mostrato questa macchina meccanica.