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Ada Lovelace Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.”
— Ada Lovelace
Tagged: Family, Poetry, Mathematics
“I am working very hard…like the Devil in fact (which perhaps I am). I think you will be pleased.”
— Ada Lovelace, Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage
Tagged: Hard Work, The Devil
“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform…But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.”
— Ada Lovelace, Ada Lovelace: Letters shed light on tech visionary
Tagged: Analytical Engine, Computer Prototypes, Science
“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.”
— Ada Lovelace, Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage
Tagged: Brain, Genius, Immortality, Arrogance
“They say that “coming events cast their shadows before.” May they not sometimes cast their lights before?”
— Ada Lovelace, Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage
Tagged: Optimism, Pessimism
“I have a peculiar way of learning and I think it must it must be a peculiar man to teach me successfully.”
— Ada Lovelace, Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage
Tagged: Learning, Men, Women, Teachers and Gender
“I can only end by repeating what I have often said before, that I am very troublesome, & only wish I could do you any such service as you are doing me.”
— Ada Lovelace
Tagged: Apologies, troublesome, Flirting
“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, Programming Pioneer Ada Lovelace(STEM Trailblazer Bios)
Tagged: Understanding, Fractions, Infinitesimal, Relations, Interconnectedness
“Am I too imaginative for you? I think not.”
— Ada Lovelace, Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage
Tagged: imaginative
“Circumstances have been such, that I have lived almost entirely secluded for some time. Those who are much in earnest and with single minds devoted to any great object in life , must find this occasionally inevitable.... You will wonder at having heard nothing from me; but you have experience and candour enough to perceive and know that God has not given to us (in this state of existence) more than very limited powers of expression of one's ideas and feelings... I shall be very desirous of again seeing you. You know what that means from me , and that it is no form, but the simple expression and result of the respect and attraction I feel for a mind that ventures to read direct in God's own book, and not merely thro' man's translation of that same vast and mighty work.”
— Ada Lovelace, Englische Studien
Tagged: Candor, God, Attraction
“When I behold the scientific and so-called philosophers full of selfish feelings, and of a tenency to war against circumstances and Providence, I say to myself: They are not true priests, they are but half prophets — it not absolutely false ones. They have read the great page simply with the physical eye, and with none of the spirit within. The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole... That God is one, and that all the works and the feelings He has called into existence are ONE; this is a truth (a biblical and scriptural truth too) not in my opinion developed to the apprehension of most people in its really deep and unfanthomable meaning. There is too much tendency to making separate and independent bundles of both the physical and the moral facts of the universe. Whereas, all and everything is naturally related and interconnected. A volume could I write you on this subject.”
— Ada Lovelace
Tagged: Science, Philosophy, Truth, Prophets, physical, Moral, Universe, Interconnectedness
“ [The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine...Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”
— Ada Lovelace, Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage
Tagged: Analytical Engine, Computer Prototypes, Notation, sound, Composition
“Perhaps you have felt already, from the tone of my letter, that I am more than ever now the bride of science. Religion to me is science, and science is religion. In that deeply-felt truth lies the secret of my intense devotion to the reading of God's natural works. It is reading Him. His will — His intelligence ; and this again is learning to obey and to follow (to the best of our power) that will! For he who reads, who interprets the Divinity with a true and simple heart, then obeys and submits in acts and feelings as by an impulse and instinct. He can't help doing so. At least, it appears so to me.”
— Ada Lovelace
Tagged: Science, Religion, God's Will, divinity
“With all my wiry power and strength, I am prone at times to bodily sufferings, connected chiefly with the digestive organs, of no common degree or king. I do not regret the sufferings and peculiarities of my physical constitution. They have taught me, and continue to teach me, that which I think nothing else could have developed. It is a force and control put upon me by Providence which I must obey. And the effects of this continual disciple of facts are mighty. They tame the in the best sense of that word, and they fan into existence a pure, bright, holy, unselfish flame within that sheds cheerfulness and light on many.”
— Ada Lovelace
Tagged: Power, strength, Providence, Unselfish, digestive Organs
“I expect to gain a good deal of new light, & to get a good lift, in studying…though probably I shall be a long time about this. I could wish I went on quicker. That is I wish a human head, or my head at all events, could take in a great deal more & a great deal more rapidly than is the case; and if I had made my own head, I would have proportioned it's [sic] wishes & ambition a little more to it's [sic] capacity.”
— Ada Lovelace
Tagged: Letters, Hope, studying
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