Ada Lovelace > Quotes

“I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me, how the matter in question was first thought of or arrived at, etc., etc.”
― Ada Lovelace

“I am in a charming state of confusion.”
― Ada Lovelace

“The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.”
― Ada Lovelace

“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with.
[Describing Charles Babbage's machine.]”
― Ada King Lovelace

“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

“If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me "poetical science"?”
― Ada Lovelace

“I don't wish to be without my brains, tho' they doubtless interfere with a blind faith which would be very comfortable”
― Ada Lovelace

“Mi principio inquebrantable es esforzarme en amar la verdad y a Dios por encima de la fama y la gloria. El suyo es amar la verdad y a Dios, pero amar más la fama, la gloria y los honores."/"My unswerving principle is to strive to love the truth and God above fame and glory. Yours is to love the truth and God, but to love more fame, glory and honors”
― Ada Lovelace

“I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works, for the most effective use of mankind; and certainly, I should feel it no small glory if I were enabled to be one of his most noted prophets (using this word in my own peculiar sense) in this world.”
― Ada Lovelace, Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's Daughter and Her Description of the First Computer

“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.”
― Ada Lovelace

“Those who view mathematical science, not merely as a vast body of abstract and immutable truths, whose intrinsic beauty, symmetry and logical completeness, when regarded in their connexion together as a whole, entitle them to a prominent place in the interest of all profound and logical minds, but as possessing a yet deeper interest for the human race, when it is remembered that this science constitutes the language through which alone we can adequately express the great facts of the natural world, and those unceasing changes of mutual relationship which, visibly or invisibly, consciously or unconsciously to our immediate physical perceptions, are interminably going on in the agencies of the creation we live amidst...”
― Ada Lovelace