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.
ADA LOVELACEI 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.
ADA LOVELACEI am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
ADA LOVELACEImagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
ADA LOVELACEOne essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.
ADA LOVELACEThe more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.
ADA LOVELACEI am in a charming state of confusion.
ADA LOVELACEThe Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.
ADA LOVELACEI don’t wish to be without my brains, tho’ they doubtless interfere with a blind faith which would be very comfortable.
ADA LOVELACEThat brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
ADA LOVELACEI shall, in due time, be a Poet.
ADA LOVELACEMathematical 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 LOVELACEIf you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science?
ADA LOVELACEWe may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
ADA LOVELACEAs soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
ADA LOVELACEUnderstand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
ADA LOVELACEI 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.
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