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...
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.
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.
Religion to me is science, and science is religion. Ada Lovelace
Religion to me is science, and science is religion.
I am in a charming state of confusion. Ada Lovelace
I am in a charming state of confusion.
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.
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.
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.
If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science ? Ada Lovelace
If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science ?
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.
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.
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.