Ada Lovelace

Mathematics English 1815 – 1852 436 quotes

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.

Notes by the Translator. Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage Esq. 1843

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.

Notes by the Translator. Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage Esq. 1843

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.

Notes by the Translator. Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage Esq. 1843

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.

Notes by the Translator. Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage Esq. 1843

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.

Notes by the Translator. Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage Esq. 1843

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.

Notes by the Translator. Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage Esq. 1843

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.

Letter to Charles Babbage

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.

Letter to Charles Babbage

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.

Notes by the Translator. Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage Esq. 1843

The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be made to do anything that can be expressed in the language of algebra.

Notes by the Translator. Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage Esq. 1843

The Analytical Engine is a machine that can be made to do anything that can be expressed in the language of mathematics.

Notes by the Translator. Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage Esq. 1843

I am more than ever convinced that the great object of my life is to be the discoverer of some at present unknown truths.

Letter to her mother, Lady Byron 1835

I believe myself to be a discoverer of the first order.

Letter to her mother, Lady Byron 1835

The more I study, the more I feel my own ignorance.

Letter to her mother, Lady Byron 1835

I am a mathematician, and a metaphysician.

Letter to her mother, Lady Byron 1835

I have a peculiar way of looking at things, which I believe to be my own.

Letter to her mother, Lady Byron 1835

I am never so happy as when I am working.

Letter to her mother, Lady Byron 1835

I am quite convinced that I have a peculiar power of mind.

Letter to her mother, Lady Byron 1835

I am in a state of perpetual mental activity.

Letter to her mother, Lady Byron 1835

I am trying to develop a new method of thought.

Letter to her mother, Lady Byron 1835