Ada Lovelace

"You have always been in a manner the link which bound my interests and feelings in the most extraordinary manner."

"That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, and I am not ashamed to say so."

"Let me alone with my thoughts."

"I am quite satisfied with my own exertions."

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

"I am afraid I am behaving very badly about your drawings."

"We are all too prone to impose our values on others."

"My object is to show that there is not anything really incomprehensible in the science of mathematics."

"I must not let the world see my passions."

"Your devoted friend, Ada"

"I find the highest pleasure in the performance of duty."

"The poetical science is my true vocation."

"Do not underestimate the power of persistence."

"I intend to be a Calculus of the Nervous System."

"Life is too short to be trifled with."

"I have a natural facility for mechanical and technical subjects."

"Let me exhort you not to overlook the importance of attending to the smallest details."

"I do not believe in the weakness of women."

"The Analytical Engine is the first of its kind, and I am honored to have studied it."

"It is the most poetical of all languages; it is a language of creation."

"I think there is much merit in the novel you have described."

"Discipline is essential in all things."

"I am grateful for the advantages of my education."

"The music of the spheres is written in numbers."

"Do not delay in pursuing your intellectual interests."

"I am resolved to take a step that may alter the whole future course of my life."

"The mind must be prepared to receive truth when it comes."

"I believe in the ultimate triumph of reason over superstition."

"It is not enough to have a good mind; one must know how to use it."

"I shall pursue my studies with unremitting vigor."