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Engine Quotes by 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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