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my only worry is that finishing this book will leave lovelace and babbage shaped holes in my heart 😭😭

absolutely delightful to say the least

Absolutely amazing blend of history, comedy, and fun! This is what learning’s about!

"It is in Lovelace's Notes (1843) that can be found the most interesting protoversions of many modern computing ideas - loops, if-then statements, the seperation of hardware and software, and most radically, the concept of general-purpose computing."

Quote from Thomas Carlyle in 1835: "After some considerable gasping, I learned from [John Stuart] Mill this fact: that my Manuscript, all except some four tattered leaves, was annihilated! He had left it out (too carelessly); it had been taken for wastepaper: and so five months of as tough labour as I could remember of, were as good as vanished, gone like a whiff of smoke."

"The financial crises of the nineteenth century were successfully ended by the ending of the century; they were succeeded by the crises of the twentieth century."