Ada Lovelace

We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine [Charles Babbage’s visionary computer] weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

The Analytical Engine [Charles Babbage’s visionary computer] has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths.

The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.