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Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.

— 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.

Notes on the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage (1843)

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

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

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I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

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