Science Museum Quote by James Gleick

The Difference Engine can in reality (as has been already partly explained) do nothing but add; and any other processes, not excepting those of…

— Ada Lovelace

“Using machines to make other machines allowed finer tolerances to be maintained-sometimes down to a thousandth of an inch"-and this in turn meant that…

— Thomas Sowell

“Many of his early engines were quite astounding. They were no faster or more powerful than other designs, and yet they were more expensive,…

— Stephen Pile

The method of differences is, in fact, a method of additions; and as it includes within its means a larger number of results attainable…

— Ada Lovelace

This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely tabulate, and…

— Ada Lovelace

You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which…

— Charles Babbage

As an inventor, it's a rite of passage to have an engine. I'd like to have my own engine someday.

— Lonnie Johnson

“A cross-section of Watt’s steam engine, the machine that heralded the first industrial revolution. The real benefits of the improved steam engine didn’t take…

— Stefan Heck

The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine, or the…

— Ada Lovelace

What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?

— Abbas ibn Firnas

The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most…

— O. Winston Link