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

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.

The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.

Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans– everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.

I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.

I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.

As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.

What is imagination? It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable, it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal.

I am in a charming state of confusion.

We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

If you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science?

I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did – I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.

The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.

Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

I don’t wish to be without my brains, tho’ they doubtless interfere with a blind faith which would be very comfortable.

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.

Humility, peace, child-like enthusiasm, acceptance, and sincerity is the true infinity engine!

In the construction of engines.entalists who observe things that cannot be explained, and theoreticians who explain things that cannot be observed.

No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller.

Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore.

You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine.

When the dust has settled, turn off the revving, restless engine inside you.

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.