Ada Lovelace
10 quotes
“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform”
“A large, coarse”
“Difference and Analytical Engines”
“[...] engine is the material expression of any indefinite function of any degree of generality and complexity. As quoted by Rosen, Kenneth H. (2013). Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications , McGraw”
“I may remark that the curious transformations many formulae can undergo, the unsuspected and to a beginner apparently impossible identity of forms exceedingly dissimilar at first sight, is I think one of the chief difficulties in the early part of mathematical studies. I am often reminded of certain sprites and fairies one reads of, who are at one's elbows in one shape now, and the next minute in a form most dissimilar. As quoted in Toole, Betty Alexandra (1998), Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: Prophet of the Computer Age, Strawberry Press, ISBN 0912647183 . p. 99”
“In a letter to Andrew Crosse , as quoted in Eugen Kölbing 's Englische Studien, Volume 19 (1894), Leipzig; O.R. Reisland,”
“When I behold the scientific and so”
“Perhaps you have felt already, from the tone of my letter, that I am more than ever now the bride of science. Religion to me is science , and science is religion. In that deeply”
“Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics . In a letter to Andrew Crosse , as quoted in Eugen Kölbing 's Englische Studien, Volume 19 (1894), Leipzig; O.R. Reisland, "Byron's Daughter", p. 156.”
“We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard”