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I'm a part of a program called Toyota's Engines of Change Program. The message is that anyone can make a difference in their community or for whatever cause they feel strongly about. Everyone can be an Engine of Change.

~Aaron Peirsol

Topics: About Anyone Cause Change Community Difference Engine Engines Everyone Feel Make Make A Difference Message Part Program Strongly Toyota Whatever

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Plays are the marathon of scriptwriting. You fix on a point somewhere in the middle distance, and you start running, and you don't stop until you get to the end. The theory is that you have something you cannot not say: this is the engine that propels you through to the last page.

~Abi Morgan

Topics: Cannot Distance End Engine Fix Get Last Marathon Middle Page Plays Point Running Say Something Somewhere Start Stop Theory Through Until You

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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: Analytical Engine Flowers Just Leaves Loom May Most Patterns Say

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The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: Analytical Calculating Common Common Ground Considerations Does Engine Ground Holds Interesting Machines Mere More Nature Occupy Own Position Wholly

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The ideas which led to the Analytical Engine occurred in a manner wholly independent of any that were connected with the Difference Engine. These ideas are indeed, in their own intrinsic nature, independent of the latter engine and might equally have occurred had it never existed nor even been thought of at all.

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: Analytical Any Been Connected Difference Engine Equally Even Existed Had Ideas Indeed Independent Intrinsic Latter Led Manner Might Nature Never Nor Occurred Own Thought Were Which Wholly

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As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: About Engine Flying Got Perfection Scheme Soon Steam

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I have got a scheme to make a thing in the form of a horse with a steam engine in the inside so contrived as to move an immense pair of wings, fixed on the outside of the horse, in such a manner as to carry it up into the air while a person sits on its back.

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: Air Back Carry Contrived Engine Fixed Form Got Horse Immense Inside Make Manner Move Outside Pair Person Scheme Steam Thing Up While Wings

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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... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: Analytical Anything Engine Exert How Indirect Influence Itself Know Likely Order Originate Perform Reciprocal Science Whatever

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Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: Abstract Analytical Bear Engine Everyday Feel Human Interests Involving May Ordinary Peculiar Perhaps Powers Questions Rather Science Speculative Strictly Than Those Utilitarian Very Views Who

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In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: Analytical Another Bring Capital Case Certain Engine Labour Larger Lay Line May Much Order Out Particular Return Undoubtedly Us

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