Analysis Quote by Ada Lovelace

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

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

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

We cannot forbear suggesting one practical result which it appears to us must be greatly facilitated by the independent manner in which the engine…

— Ada Lovelace

The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the…

— Ada Lovelace

The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.

— 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

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

It were much to be desired, that when mathematical processes pass through the human brain instead of through the medium of inanimate mechanism, it…

— 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

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 whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine…

— Charles Babbage