Arrangements Quote by Ada Lovelace

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

— 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…

— Ada Lovelace

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its…

— Charles Babbage

The Analytical Engine, on the contrary, can either add, subtract, multiply or divide with equal facility; and performs each of these four operations in…

— Ada Lovelace

The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests…

— Ada Lovelace

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

— Rudy Rucker

The practice of first developing a clear and precise definition of a process without regard for efficiency, and then using it as a guide…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside…

— William S. Burroughs

“Combinatorial complexity is well understood and can be tackled in an engineering fashion. For example, the airline schedule is usually built using a technique…

— Rich Jolly

Priority determines capacity.

— Andy Stanley

If an acquisition can speed a process or fill a gap, we'll jump right to that. It's about timing, need... it's not necessarily an…

— Peggy Johnson

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

— George Iles