Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

Ada Lovelace

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Ada Lovelace

British mathematician born in 1815, daughter of Lord Byron. She wrote the first computer program in her notes on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine and foresaw that machines could manipulate symbols beyond mere numbers.

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Source: Letter to Andrew Crosse, 1844Verified

Ada Lovelace's Other Quotes

The Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

The engine is not merely adapted for tabulating the results of one particular function and of no other, but for developing and tabulating any function whatever.

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