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“I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.”

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If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

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The ideas which led to the Analytical Engine occurred in a manner wholly independent of any that were connected with the Difference Engine. These…

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Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract…

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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.

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This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely tabulate, and…

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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it…

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In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the operations of…

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The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the higher science…

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Secondly, figures, the symbols of numerical magnitude, are frequently also the symbols of operations, as when they are the indices of powers. Wherever terms…

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“The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.”

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