Ada Lovelace

I am not afraid to venture into unknown territory.

The Analytical Engine is capable of developing any operation that can be expressed by a finite and determinate number of symbols.

My mind is a laboratory, constantly experimenting with new ideas.

The Analytical Engine is a machine of universal application, capable of performing operations on any kind of data.

I consider myself a high priestess of science.

The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.

I am in a state of utter disgust with my own intellect.

My brain is a queer piece of mechanism.

I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.

I am never so知其不可为而为之 happy as when I am really engaged in some good hard thinking.

I shall, in due time, be a poetical scientist.

I am more than ever now the bride of science.

It is quite clear that the Engine may be used as an aid to the human mind in calculating results, rather than merely performing arithmetic operations.

Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the Engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.

It is desirable to guard against the possibility of exaggerated ideas being formed as to the powers of the Analytical Engine.

I am most anxious to get the work done well, and to make it a first-rate thing.

The more I study, the more I feel myself to be a mere nobody, though I have no doubt I shall be a somebody.

I believe myself to be a rare combination of the imaginative faculty and the mathematical faculty, which is rare, and therefore valuable.

I do not think I have ever been so much interested in any subject. It is so very curious, and seems to open up such entirely new views of things.

I am a firm believer in the power of the imagination to transform the world.