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• The Analytical Engine weaves Algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
  -- Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace, the first programme...
• Did you ever hear Of the frolic fairies dear? They're a blessed little race, Peeping up in fancy's face, In the valley, on the hill, By the fountain and the rill
  Laughing out between the leaves That the loving summer weaves. -- Mrs. Osgood...
• Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things. -- Edward Abbey
• Ned: Zounds, I did thee mightily smitily! [assembled audience under "Springfield Renaissance Fair" clap] "Zounds" is a renaissance English word short for "God's wounds" but the "smitily
  hat's pure Flanders! Smithers: [lying on the ground] [raising his visor] Please, call a doctor....
• Cards? Luxury! I was at the smithy 18 hours a day forging gears for my analytical engine, Ada working her fingers to the bone assembling them on shafts.
  I used to dream of the day when I would finally get it all put together so that I could finally play 'Wumpus'....
• Ada n. A Pascal-descended language that has been made mandatory for Department of Defense software projects by the Pentagon.
  Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that, technically, it is precisely what one might expect given that kind of endorsement by fia...
• Ada:: n. A {{Pascal}}-descended language that has been made mandatory for Department of Defense software projects by the Pentagon.
  Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that, technically, it is precisely what one might expect given that kind of endorsement by fia...
• Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Fly not ye...
• Worthless. -- Sir George Bidell Airy, KCB, MA, LLD
  DCL, FRS, FRAS (Astronomer Royal of Great Britain), estimating for the Chancellor of the Exchequer the potential value of the "analytical engine" invented by Charles Babbage, September 15, 1842....