Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the...
Your best and wisest refuge from all troubles is in your science. Ada Lovelace
Your best and wisest refuge from all troubles is in your science.
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science. Ada Lovelace
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
What is imagination? It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable; it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal. Ada Lovelace
What is imagination? It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable; it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal.
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value. Ada Lovelace
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand. Ada Lovelace
Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be. Ada Lovelace
The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.
As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine. Ada Lovelace
As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any. I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus. Ada Lovelace
Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any. I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.
I am in a charming state of confusion. Ada Lovelace
I am in a charming state of confusion.
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
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.
That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show. Ada Lovelace
That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
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 wing, fixed on the outside of the horse, in such a manner as to carry it up into the air while a person sit on it back. Ada Lovelace
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 wing, fixed on the outside of the horse, in such a manner as to carry it up into the air while a person sit on it back.
