Ada Lovelace

To me it seems that mathematics is the poetry of the universe.

The intellectual, the poetical, the imaginative, the emotional, these are the faculties which have made me what I am.

I find that I have no pleasure in reading poetry unless I can understand it thoroughly.

The Analytical Engine is the first computer.

God has bestowed upon me a mind capable of great things.

In my own mind, I am convinced that my father was a great genius.

Science and art are twins; they grow together.

The boundaries between disciplines are artificial.

I have always been more interested in the why than the how.

The machine can be seen as a great library of operations.

One of the most remarkable features of the Analytical Engine is its ability to perform loops.

The engine can repeat operations as many times as desired.

Conditional branching is possible in the Analytical Engine.

The power of the engine lies in its generality.

I believe the engine will change the world.

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

My health is delicate, but my mind is strong.

On my deathbed, I wish to be remembered for my work on the engine.

I am dying, but the engine will live on.

The future is bright for computing.