Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Ada Lovelace
- I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
- The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere ‘calculating machines.’ It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.
- I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did – I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.
- I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
- That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
- We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
- The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform… But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
- As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
- The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
- Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
Ada Lovelace, born Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, on December 10, 1815, was an English mathematician and writer known for her pioneering work on Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Lovelace is often regarded as the world’s first computer programmer, as she wrote detailed notes and annotations on the engine’s operation, including what is now considered the first algorithm intended for implementation on a machine. Her insights into the potential of the Analytical Engine went beyond mere number crunching, as she envisioned it being capable of manipulating symbols and not just numbers.
Ada Lovelace was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron and mathematician Annabella Milbanke. Influenced by her mother’s interest in mathematics and logic, Lovelace developed a deep passion for the subject. Despite facing societal norms that limited women’s involvement in scientific pursuits during the 19th century, her intellectual contributions laid the foundation for the future of computing.
Ada Lovelace’s legacy lives on, celebrated annually on Ada Lovelace Day, as she continues to inspire generations with her groundbreaking contributions to the world of technology and her visionary understanding of the potential of computing machines.
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