"The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things……" — Ada Lovelace
"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."
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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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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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