"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."

"The more I study, the more I feel myself to be a mere nobody, though I have no doubt I shall be a somebody."

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform."

"I am in a state of utter disgust with my own intellect."

"The Analytical Engine is destined to be the instrument of the future."