#calculators

The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5. ↗

— Jack Kilby

#first #get #good #pretty #pretty good

Nature hates calculators. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#nature

Not everything adds up, sometimes it makes a negative number. The smart thing, is to do it on a calculator... you can always erase it then and pretend it never happened. Of course, if you're REALLY smart, you wouldn't have worried about it in the first place. ↗

— Savannah MEE

#life #life

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#calculators #chivalry #economists #europe #extinguished