Focus Quote by Ada Lovelace

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Ada Lovelace

We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

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

— Ada Lovelace

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

— 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,…

— Ada Lovelace