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The analytical engine cannot originate anything; it can do only what we know how to order it to perform
Drawn from what Ada Lovelace said
What Ada Lovelace actually said
- Ada Lovelace English mathematician and writer (1815 to 1852)
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths.
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↗Notes by the Translator, Sketch of the Analytical Engine (Scientific Memoirs, 1843)fourmilab.ch
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