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The method of differences is, in fact, a method of additions; and as it includes within its means a larger number of results attainable…

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

— Ada Lovelace

The further we analyse the manner in which such an engine performs its processes and attains its results, the more we perceive how distinctly…

— Ada Lovelace

The process of change is made up of subtraction and addition. Taking something off and then puttin something on.

— Anonymous

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

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

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

In studying the action of the Analytical Engine, we find that the peculiar and independent nature of the considerations which in all mathematical analysis…

— Ada Lovelace

A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.

— Darrell Huff

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

— Bertrand Russell

We might even invent laws for series or formula in an arbitrary manner, and set the engine to work upon them, and thus deduce…

— Ada Lovelace