Analytical Engine Quotes
- The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine exists,… — Charles Babbage
- 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… — Ada Lovelace
- As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid,… — Charles Babbage
- Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical… — 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 abstract… — Ada Lovelace