Developing Quote by 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 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 Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

— 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 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

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 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

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

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

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