The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.
ADA LOVELACEI am in a charming state of confusion.
More Ada Lovelace Quotes
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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.
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
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I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
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I don’t wish to be without my brains, tho’ they doubtless interfere with a blind faith which would be very comfortable.
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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.
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.
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I am in a charming state of confusion.
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As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
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Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
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The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.
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Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
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One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.
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I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans– everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.
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