Engine Quote by Ada Lovelace

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

— 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

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations,…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Nothing is more complex than simplification; what art takes from enigma it more than replenishes in the instantiation of itself, in the labyrinthine puzzle…

— Nick Land

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

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

— Thomas Eakins

“Fractals are beautiful to look at when graphed and, thus, had been used in arts and the sciences.  It first appeared in art in…

— Tim Clearbrook

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

In this science the illustrations and examples are not confined in their effect merely to the practice they afford in the analytical art, but…

— Dionysius Lardner

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.

— Charles Babbage

To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman