Ada Lovelace Quotes
Ada Lovelace's ideas are in her “Notes” on Babbage's Analytical Engine (1843), often called the first computer program, and in her letters. The quotes below come from those.
4 real Ada Lovelace quotes, with sources
“The Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.”Ada Lovelace — Notes on the Analytical Engine (1843), Note A
“The engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”Ada Lovelace — Notes on the Analytical Engine (1843), Note A
“Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.”Ada Lovelace — Letter to Andrew Crosse, quoted in Englische Studien 19 (1894), p. 156
“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.”Ada Lovelace — Notes on the Analytical Engine (1843), Note G
Who was Ada Lovelace?
Working on Charles Babbage's proposed Analytical Engine, Ada Lovelace wrote what is often called the first computer program, and saw a century early that such machines could one day work with music and symbols, not just numbers. Read more on Wikipedia.
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What is Ada Lovelace's most famous quote?
One of the best known is “The Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.” (Notes on the Analytical Engine (1843), Note A)
Where do these Ada Lovelace quotes come from?
Ada Lovelace's ideas are in her “Notes” on Babbage's Analytical Engine (1843), often called the first computer program, and in her letters. The quotes below come from those.
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