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I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works, for the most effective use of mankind; and certainly, I should feel it no small glory if I were enabled to be one of his most noted prophets (using this word in my own peculiar sense) in this world.

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: Add Almighty Certainly Effective Feel Glory His Interpreting Laws Mankind Most My Own Noted Own Peculiar Prophets Sense Should Small Towards Use Using Were Wish Word Works World I Wish

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As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: About Engine Flying Got Perfection Scheme Soon Steam

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I have got a scheme to make a thing in the form of a horse with a steam engine in the inside so contrived as to move an immense pair of wings, fixed on the outside of the horse, in such a manner as to carry it up into the air while a person sits on its back.

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: Air Back Carry Contrived Engine Fixed Form Got Horse Immense Inside Make Manner Move Outside Pair Person Scheme Steam Thing Up While Wings

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I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me must wonderfully cheerful & merry at other times, which is curious & very satisfactory.

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: Am Cheerful Curious Earnest Engaged Good Happy Makes Me Merry Must Never Other Really Satisfactory Times Very Which Wonderfully I Am

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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: Analytical Anything Engine Exert How Indirect Influence Itself Know Likely Order Originate Perform Reciprocal Science Whatever

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I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: About Arithmetic Better Did Done Figures Foolish Learn Like Quite Rather Saying Sums Than Thinking Tried I Tried

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I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: Application Close Excitement Find Imagination Intense Keep Left Mind Nature Nothing Now Running Scientific Seems Stop Subjects Up Very Void Want Which Wild

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Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: Abstract Analytical Bear Engine Everyday Feel Human Interests Involving May Ordinary Peculiar Perhaps Powers Questions Rather Science Speculative Strictly Than Those Utilitarian Very Views Who

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Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: Any Else Every Few Focus Least Nervous Nervous System Owing Perception Quarter Rays Some Some Things System Things Throw Universe Vast Very Which I Can

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