69 Quotes by Ada Lovelace

I am in a charming state of confusion.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works, for the most effective use of mankind; and certainly, I should feel it no small glory if I were enabled to be one of his most noted prophets (using this word in my own peculiar sense) in this world.

I don't wish to be without my brains, tho' they doubtless interfere with a blind faith which would be very comfortable

The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

Mi principio inquebrantable es esforzarme en amar la verdad y a Dios por encima de la fama y la gloria. El suyo es amar la verdad y a Dios, pero amar más la fama, la gloria y los honores."/"My unswerving principle is to strive to love the truth and God above fame and glory. Yours is to love the truth and God, but to love more fame, glory and honors

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.

I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.