Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

- Ada Lovelace

In studying the action of the Analytical Engine, we find that the peculiar and independent nature of the considerations which in all mathematical ana…

- Ada Lovelace

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

- Ada Lovelace

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

- Ada Lovelace

The Analytical Engine might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those o…

- Ada Lovelace

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

- Ada Lovelace

This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely tabulate, and …

- Ada Lovelace

One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on, is the shifting meaning of…

- Ada Lovelace

The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.

- Ada Lovelace