Bases Quote by Ada Lovelace

The Difference Engine can in reality (as has been already partly explained) do nothing but add; and any other processes, not excepting those of…

— Ada Lovelace

Some times small differences make big additions.........

— Sheetal Chauhan

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

— Bertrand Russell

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations…

— John von Neumann

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

— Darrell Huff

Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.

— Edward de Bono

The comparative strength of each piece depends entirely on circumstance; their movements are so different that it is essentially impossible to effectively compare them…

— Daniel Naroditsky

“complexity introduced the possibility of greater error and because no working tool needed greater errors.”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested…

— Harold Davenport

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

...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all…

— Edsger Dijkstra