"The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion."

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Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction of machinery in the rank of a demonstrative science. The day will arrive when no school of mechanical drawing will be thought complete without teaching it.

— Charles Babbage