I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.

Ada Lovelace

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science ?

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.

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.

Ada Lovelace

Practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.

Ada Lovelace

The Analytical Engine weaves algebraically patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

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.

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.

Ada Lovelace

Religion to me is science, and science is religion.

Ada Lovelace

What would be to me terrible, would be mind & activity impeded by health.

Ada Lovelace