Quotes About Ada Lovelace

la primera teórica de la informática, Ada Lovelace, la matemática que a principios del siglo XIX sentó las bases de las calculadoras mecánicas y predijo que pronto dominarían el mundo. Le pareció que estaba muy bien escrito.

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.

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.

Like Ada Lovelace, Turing was a programmer, looking inward to the step-by-step logic of his own mind. He imagined himself as a computer. He distilled mental procedures into their smallest constituent parts, the atoms of information processing.