"The Analytical Engine is capable of developing any operation that can be expressed by a finite and determinate number of symbols."

"The Analytical Engine opens up a new era in the history of scientific investigation."

"I am driven by a desire to understand the fundamental laws of the universe."

"The Analytical Engine is a new language, a new way of thinking."

"Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science."