--- title: "19 Engines Quotes By Ada Lovelace" description: "19 Engines quotes by Ada Lovelace. Plus more from Ada Lovelace and more Engines sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f60/ada-lovelace-10853_analytical_the-analytical-engine-has-no-pretensions_1502998.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) > [This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/198/ada-lovelace-10853_developing_this-one-fact-implies-everything-and-it_318123.png) > [The Analytical Engine, on the contrary, can either add, subtract, multiply or divide with equal facility; and performs each of these four…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/the-analytical-engine-on-the-contrary-can-either-add-subtract/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/118/ada-lovelace-10853_add_the-analytical-engine-on-the-contrary-ca_1221592.png) > [The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/458/ada-lovelace-10853_analysis_the-object-of-the-engine-is-in-fact-to-g_428244.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) > [It must be evident how multifarious and how mutually complicated are the considerations which the working of such an engine involve. There…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/it-must-be-evident-how-multifarious-and-how-mutually-complicated-are/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/797/ada-lovelace-10853_complicated_it-must-be-evident-how-multifarious-and_1511480.png) > [In studying the action of the Analytical Engine, we find that the peculiar and independent nature of the considerations which in all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/in-studying-the-action-of-the-analytical-engine-we-find-that-the/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b67/ada-lovelace-10853_action_in-studying-the-action-of-the-analytical_2331821.png) > [It were much to be desired, that when mathematical processes pass through the human brain instead of through the medium of inanimate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/it-were-much-to-be-desired-that-when-mathematical-processes-pass/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/979/ada-lovelace-10853_analysis_it-were-much-to-be-desired-that-when-mat_2352921.png) > [We cannot forbear suggesting one practical result which it appears to us must be greatly facilitated by the independent manner in which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/we-cannot-forbear-suggesting-one-practical-result-which-it-appears-to/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66c/ada-lovelace-10853_attainment_we-cannot-forbear-suggesting-one-practic_1817901.png) > [We might even invent laws for series or formula in an arbitrary manner, and set the engine to work upon them, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/we-might-even-invent-laws-for-series-or-formula-in-an-arbitrary/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa6/ada-lovelace-10853_amusement_we-might-even-invent-laws-for-series-or_1593876.jpg) > [In almost every computation a great variety of arrangements for the succession of the processes is possible, and various considerations must influence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/in-almost-every-computation-a-great-variety-of-arrangements-for-the/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/193/ada-lovelace-10853_arrangements_in-almost-every-computation-a-great-vari_2742670.png) > [The further we analyse the manner in which such an engine performs its processes and attains its results, the more we perceive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/the-further-we-analyse-the-manner-in-which-such-an-engine-performs/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfa/ada-lovelace-10853_analysis_the-further-we-analyse-the-manner-in-whi_3145012.png) > [The Difference Engine can in reality (as has been already partly explained) do nothing but add; and any other processes, not excepting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/the-difference-engine-can-in-reality-as-has-been-already-partly/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eaa/ada-lovelace-10853_add_the-difference-engine-can-in-reality-as_2299180.jpg) > [With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/with-whomsoever-or-wheresoever-may-rest-the-present-causes-of/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d8/ada-lovelace-10853_causes_with-whomsoever-or-wheresoever-may-rest_896830.jpg) > [The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/the-confusion-the-difficulties-the-contradictions-which-in/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fc/ada-lovelace-10853_accurate_the-confusion-the-difficulties-the-contr_2824279.png) > [ Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of \[Babbage’s Analytical Engine\] is to give its… ](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/954/ada-lovelace-10853_business_many-persons-who-are-not-conversant-with_488566.jpg) > [ The Analytical Engine\] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/the-analytical-engine-might-act-upon-other-things-besides-number-were/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91c/ada-lovelace-10853_abstract_the-analytical-engine-might-act-upon-oth_728873.png) > [Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec1/ada-lovelace-10853_analysis_indeed-we-may-consider-the-engine-as-the_305606.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-4/) [Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a33/ada-lovelace-10853_analysis_the-analytical-engine-has-no-pretensions_1590020.png) ## Other authors on Engines ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/engines/ada-lovelace/#itemlist", "name": "19 Engines Quotes By Ada Lovelace", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. 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