14 Quotes by Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace was a pioneering mathematician and writer who is widely regarded as the world’s first computer programmer. Born in 1815 in England, Lovelace is best known for her work on Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Lovelace was fascinated by the possibilities of the machine and wrote the first algorithm intended to be processed by it, making her the world’s first computer programmer. Her work was largely unrecognized during her lifetime, but she is now celebrated as a trailblazer in the field of computer science. (Bio)
Ada Lovelace Quotes
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. (Meaning)
The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.
Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.
The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.
A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.
It may be desirable to explain, that by the word operation, we mean any process which alters the mutual relation of two or more things, be this relation of what kind it may. This is the most general definition, and would include all subjects in the universe.
But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value; just as logic has its own peculiar truth and value, independently of the subjects to which we may apply its reasonings and processes.
The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.
This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely tabulate, and is incapable of developing, the Analytical Engine can either tabulate or develope.
In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the operations of matter and the abstract mental processes of the most abstract branch of mathematical science.
One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on, is the shifting meaning of many of the symbols used in mathematical notation. First, the symbols of operation are frequently also the symbols of the results of operations.
― Ada Lovelace Quotes
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