Ada Lovelace

I am more than ever convinced that the object of the Imagination, as well as of the Reason, is to penetrate into the hidden laws of Nature.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

The more I study, the more I feel my mind is enlarged and strengthened.

I am a great believer in the power of an enthusiastic imagination.

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

I hope that my studies will be of practical use to mankind.

The Analytical Engine might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine.

I am working very hard, partly that I may earn money, and partly that I may acquire knowledge.

The brain is a most wonderful machine, but it requires fuel and exercise to keep it in order.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

I am a mathematician and a metaphysician.

The more I think, the more I feel that it is the one great thing to do.

I wish to combine the poetical with the mathematical.

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.

I am a firm believer in the power of self-education.

It is an error to suppose that the Analytical Engine has for its object to perform calculations only.

I am often called upon to be a sort of scientific interpreter.

The Analytical Engine is the only thing that will ever be able to do justice to the great and complicated calculations of the universe.

My brain is more than merely mortal; as time unfolds, it will be seen.

I am a firm believer in the importance of accuracy in all things.