It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.
How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!
Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.