Courses Quote by Charles Babbage

The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine…

— Charles Babbage

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its…

— Charles Babbage

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it…

— 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

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

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

“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can…

— Ada King 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 has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can…

— Ada Lovelace

Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract…

— 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

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