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"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know ..." — Ada Lovelace
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
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