“They say that “coming events cast their shadows before.” May they not sometimes cast their lights before?”
About This Quote
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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