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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.
"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform."— Ada Lovelace
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Meaning of this quote
The Analytical Engine is described as following the operations people know how to specify for it.
Key takeaway:
Distinguish an instruction-driven mechanism from claims about its independent intentions.
Origin of the quote
Notes by the Translator, Sketch of the Analytical Engine (1843).
Who actually said this?
VerifiedNote G; any thing is printed as two words in some transcriptions.
