Ada Lovelace Quotes
Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.
The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.
One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.
Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other.
The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.
The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
