Ada Lovelace
First computer programmer, visionary of computing
Quotes by Ada Lovelace
The engine is capable of performing operations of analysis, without the intervention of the human intellect, and of combining them in any order, and to any extent, and with any degree of complexity.
The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar skill to be capable of carrying out to any extent the operations of analysis, and of combining them in any order, and to any extent, and with any degree of complexity.
The engine is capable of developing and tabulating any function whatever, whether numerical or symbolical, and of combining them in any order, and to any extent, and with any degree of complexity, and with any degree of precision.
The Analytical Engine is a machine of the most general nature, and its operations are of the most general kind, and it can combine them in any order, and to any extent, and with any degree of complexity, and with any degree of precision.
The engine is capable of performing operations of analysis, without the intervention of the human intellect, and of combining them in any order, and to any extent, and with any degree of complexity, and with any degree of precision.
The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar skill to be capable of carrying out to any extent the operations of analysis, and of combining them in any order, and to any extent, and with any degree of complexity, and with any degree of precision.
The more I study, the more I am impressed with the conviction that the Analytical Engine is destined to be the great instrument of future computation.
I am a firm believer in the power of imagination, and I believe that the Analytical Engine will be a powerful tool for the imagination.
The Analytical Engine is not merely a calculating machine; it is a machine that can be made to do anything that can be expressed in symbols.
The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be made to do anything that can be expressed in the language of algebra.
The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be made to do anything that can be expressed in the language of mathematics.
I am more than ever convinced that the great object of my life is to be the discoverer of some at present unknown truths.
I believe myself to be a discoverer of the first order.
The more I study, the more I feel my own ignorance.
I am a mathematician, and a metaphysician.
I have a peculiar way of looking at things, which I believe to be my own.
I am never so happy as when I am working.
I am quite convinced that I have a peculiar power of mind.
I am in a state of perpetual mental activity.
I am trying to develop a new method of thought.