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Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage

About the translator / author of notes, Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815 – 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron and now commonly known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mech

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“Am I too imaginative for you? I think not.”

— Ada Lovelace, amazon.com

Tagged: imaginative

“I am working very hard…like the Devil in fact (which perhaps I am). I think you will be pleased.”

— Ada Lovelace, amazon.com

Tagged: Hard Work, The Devil

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

— Ada Lovelace, amazon.com

Tagged: Optimism, Pessimism

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

— Ada Lovelace, amazon.com

Tagged: Brain, Genius, Immortality, Arrogance

“[The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of th…”

— Ada Lovelace, amazon.com

Tagged: Analytical Engine, Computer Prototypes, Notation, sound, Composition