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> [We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/we-may-say-most-aptly-that-the-analytical-engine-weaves-algebraical/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/270/ada-lovelace-10853_engine_we-may-say-most-aptly-that-the-analytica_282756.png)

> [The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/the-analytical-engine-is-an-embodying-of-the-science-of-operations/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37b/ada-lovelace-10853_abstract_the-analytical-engine-is-an-embodying-of_582018.png)

> [As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/as-soon-as-i-have-got-flying-to-perfection-i-have-got-a-scheme-about/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/134/ada-lovelace-10853_about_as-soon-as-i-have-got-flying-to-perfecti_889813.png)

> [The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/the-analytical-engine-has-no-pretensions-whatever-to-originate-3/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f60/ada-lovelace-10853_analytical_the-analytical-engine-has-no-pretensions_1502998.png)

> [In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/in-the-case-of-the-analytical-engine-we-have-undoubtedly-to-lay-out-a/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

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## Other authors on Engine

## More by Ada Lovelace

> [If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/if-you-can-t-give-me-poetry-can-t-you-give-me-poetical-science/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

> [The ideas which led to the Analytical Engine occurred in a manner wholly independent of any that were connected with the Difference Engine. These…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/the-ideas-which-led-to-the-analytical-engine-occurred-in-a-manner/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

> [Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/those-who-incline-to-very-strictly-utilitarian-views-may-perhaps-feel/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

> [We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/we-may-say-most-aptly-that-the-analytical-engine-weaves-algebraical/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

> [Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this department of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/indeed-we-may-consider-the-engine-as-the-material-and-mechanical/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

> [This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely tabulate, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/this-one-fact-implies-everything-and-it-is-scarcely-necessary-to/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

> [The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/the-analytical-engine-has-no-pretensions-whatever-to-originate/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

> [In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the operations of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/in-enabling-mechanism-to-combine-together-general-symbols-in/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

> [The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the higher science…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/the-object-of-the-engine-is-in-fact-to-give-the-utmost-practical/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

> [Secondly, figures, the symbols of numerical magnitude, are frequently also the symbols of operations, as when they are the indices of powers. Wherever terms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/secondly-figures-the-symbols-of-numerical-magnitude-are-frequently/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

> [“The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/the-analytical-engine-weaves-algebraic-patterns-just-as-the-jacquard/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

> [In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/in-considering-any-new-subject-there-is-frequently-a-tendency-first/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

> [ Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of \[Babbage’s Analytical Engine\] is to give its results in… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/many-persons-who-are-not-conversant-with-mathematical-studies-imagine/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

> [I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/i-have-my-hopes-very-distinct-ones-too-of-one-day-getting-cerebral/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

> [It is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to record and throw themselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/it-is-however-pretty-evident-on-general-principles-that-in-devising/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

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