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[...] engine is the material expression of any indefinite function of any degree of generality and complexity.

— Ada Lovelace

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

Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.

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