Ada Lovelace

Mathematics English 1815 – 1852 436 quotes

First computer programmer, visionary of computing

Quotes by Ada Lovelace

The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be used to achieve a higher state of consciousness.

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The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be used to connect with the divine.

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The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be used to create a new form of life.

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The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be used to achieve immortality.

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The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be used to explore other dimensions.

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The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be used to communicate with extraterrestrial intelligence.

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The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be used to create a utopian society.

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The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be used to solve all the problems of the world.

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The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be used to achieve ultimate happiness.

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The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be used to transcend the limitations of the human condition.

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The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be used to become gods.

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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.

Letter to Woronzow Greig 1844

Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

Letter to William King 1841

I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me...

Letter to William King 1841

Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things.

Notes on the Analytical Engine 1843

I am in a manner his (Babbage's) analyst; and I have thrown a few additional rays of light on his subject.

Letter to Charles Babbage 1843

The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.

Letter 1841

I have my hopes, and very distinct ones too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations.

Letter to Woronzow Greig 1844

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.

Letter 1841

We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

Notes on the Analytical Engine 1843