Ada Lovelace Quotes
20 quotes from Ada Lovelace — English mathematician widely considered the first computer programmer..
“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.”
“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.”
“If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?”
“The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.”
“The Analytical Engine does not belong to one man, but to mankind.”
“I have not only in my mind but in my soul a picture of the future.”
“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.”
“We may say that the Analytical Engine can do anything which we can think.”
“I believe that there is a connection between the future of mathematics and the development of machines.”
“The engine might be programmed to create any sort of pattern that a person could devise.”
“I have a great desire to do good work.”
“I think your taste for mathematics is so decided that it ought not to be checked.”
“The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.”
“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 practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.”
“The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.”
“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis, but it has no power of anticipating any analytical revelations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with.”
“Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.”
“The power of thinking on these matters which Lady L. has always shewn from the beginning of my correspondence with her, has been something so utterly out of the common way for any beginner, man or woman.”
“An enchantress who has thrown her magic spell around the most abstract of sciences and has grasped it with a force which few masculine intellects (in our own country at least) could have exerted over it.”
