Ada Lovelace
1815 - 1852
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Biography
Ada Lovelace, born in 1815 as Augusta Ada Byron in London, England, is considered the world's first computer programmer. She collaborated with Charles Babbage on his Analytical Engine, creating what is now recognized as the first algorithm meant to be processed by a machine. Despite the prevailing stereotypes of her time that women could not excel in mathematics, Lovelace's profound understanding and foresight laid the foundation for modern computer programming. Her work and vision have cemented her legacy as a pioneer in the field of computing.
Famous Quotes (5)
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
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The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis, but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths.
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If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?
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That it's as great a folly to be an optimist as to be a pessimist.