Ada Lovelace

1815–1852 · English mathematician

Topics: programming, creativity, mathematics

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

  — Ada Lovelace

• We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

  — Ada Lovelace

• Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.

  — Ada Lovelace