"My mind is a restless sea, always seeking new shores."

"I do not think I have ever been so much interested in any subject. It is so very curious, and seems to open up such entirely new views of things."

"It is desirable to guard against the possibility of exaggerated ideas being formed as to the powers of the Analytical Engine."

"I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature."

"The Analytical Engine might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which sho…"