Ada Lovelace
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.
The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be used to connect with the divine.
The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be used to create a new form of life.
The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be used to achieve immortality.
The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be used to explore other dimensions.
The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be used to communicate with extraterrestrial intelligence.
The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be used to create a utopian society.
The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be used to solve all the problems of the world.
The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be used to achieve ultimate happiness.
The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be used to transcend the limitations of the human condition.
The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be used to become gods.
That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.
Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
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...
Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things.
I am in a manner his (Babbage's) analyst; and I have thrown a few additional rays of light on his subject.
The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.
I have my hopes, and very distinct ones too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations.
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.
We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.