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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 Lovelace

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
ADA LOVELACE

Brain Mortal Show Time
Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans– everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.
ADA LOVELACE

Mathematics Number Possible Trouble World
What 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.
ADA LOVELACE

Eternal Faculty God Imagination Teaching Tolerance Tone
The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.
ADA LOVELACE

Harmony Intellectual Natural Religious Togetherness
As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
ADA LOVELACE

Engine Fly Perfection Scheme Steam
We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
ADA LOVELACE

Engine Flower Mathematics Pattern
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

Appreciation Language Mathematics Science Unconsious Unseen
One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.
ADA LOVELACE

Arrangement Calculation Choose Essential Mathematics Necessary Object Reduce Time
I am in a charming state of confusion.
ADA LOVELACE

Charm Confusion One Liner State
I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
ADA LOVELACE

One Liner Poet Time
If you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science?
ADA LOVELACE

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

Discover Faculty Imagination Science Unseen World
I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
ADA LOVELACE

Attention Effort Finding Increase Please Power Work
That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.
ADA LOVELACE

Brain Mortal Show Time
I don’t wish to be without my brains, tho’ they doubtless interfere with a blind faith which would be very comfortable.
ADA LOVELACE

Blind Brain Comfortable Doubt Faith Interfere
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 LOVELACE

Foolish Mathematics

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.

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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.

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