"Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical……" — Ada Lovelace
"Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly."
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Ada Lovelace
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9 Quotes by Ada Lovelace
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it…
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I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only…
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In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting…
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If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.
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