Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans– everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.
ADA LOVELACEForget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans– everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.
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 LOVELACEThat brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
ADA LOVELACEI am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
ADA LOVELACEUnderstand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
ADA LOVELACEI shall, in due time, be a Poet.
ADA LOVELACEWe may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
ADA LOVELACEI don’t wish to be without my brains, tho’ they doubtless interfere with a blind faith which would be very comfortable.
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 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.
ADA LOVELACEAs soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
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 LOVELACEImagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
ADA LOVELACEThat brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.
ADA LOVELACEIf you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science?
ADA LOVELACEWhat is imagination? It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable, it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal.
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