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...
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.
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.
One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation. Ada Lovelace
One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.
I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement. Ada Lovelace
I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.
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.
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. Ada Lovelace
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.
Religion to me is science, and science is religion. Ada Lovelace
Religion to me is science, and science is religion.
What would be to me terrible, would be mind & activity impeded by health. Ada Lovelace
What would be to me terrible, would be mind & activity impeded by health.
The Analytical Engine weaves algebraically patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves. Ada Lovelace
The Analytical Engine weaves algebraically patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.
I do not believe that my father was (or ever could have been) such a Poet as I shall be an Analyst; (& Metaphysician); for with me the two go together indissolubly. Ada Lovelace
I do not believe that my father was (or ever could have been) such a Poet as I shall be an Analyst; (& Metaphysician); for with me the two go together indissolubly.