“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.”
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22385-ada-lovelace-my-brain-is-more-than-merely-mortal/ *Lovelace’s quotes are taken from correspondence held at the British Library, from her notes to her translation of the Sketch of the Analytical Engine, from James Gleick’s The Information and from Betty Alexandra Toole’s Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers. The words attributed to Lovelace are as she wrote them.
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