"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to……" — Ada Lovelace
"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with."
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Ada Lovelace
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.
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