Ada Lovelace

"I must cultivate the rare combination of intuition and analytical power."

"Every step forward in knowledge brings humanity closer to freedom."

"The mechanical principles I study are the same that govern all creation."

"I find my greatest happiness in the pursuit of mathematical truth."

"The work I have undertaken will require all my strength and dedication."

"I am resolved to leave a mark upon the world through my intellectual endeavors."

"The universe speaks to us through the language of mathematics."

"I believe that the human mind is capable of extraordinary things."

"The patterns and operations of the Analytical Engine mirror the operations of nature."

"I am grateful to have been born at a time when such grand intellectual pursuits are possible."

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

"I am much annoyed at your having altered my Note. You know I am always willing to make any required alterations myself, but that I cannot endlessly go on re-copying for the sake of verification."

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

"The peculiarity of being a lady is that one is frequently troubled with that worst of plagues, a refined and delicate constitution."

"I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to know."

"Mathematics is the language in which God has written the world."

"The world is changing, and so must we who inhabit it, if we would not be left behind in the race."

"I believe no one gets to really know you except the people who love you."

"Do not suppose that if you have been very devoted to any one duty, it is therefore the only thing to which you are fitted."

"I think it is so important that the relations between my mother and myself should be thoroughly cleared up, and brought to a healthy and natural state."

"Every moment has a weight."

"The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the workings of the mind itself."

"If I were to attempt to sum up in a word the characteristic of Ada, I should say it was courage."

"You know how I long to discover a law which should not depend on any assumption, but follow necessarily from evident principles."

"I am sure that you have plenty of business and that your life is quite as full as you would wish it to be."

"Let me know if you think there is any thing I can do to advance the subject of which you speak."

"The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its principles, and its very elevated aims."

"I delight in being of service."

"My head may be turned by flattery, but I really think I am more remarkable than most people I have known."

"I should be much annoyed if that mathematical Lady and self were to quarrel!"