Ada's Algorithm Quotes

“Lady Byron noted with obvious approval that her daughter was more impressed with meeting scientists on Wednesday, June 5, 1833, rather than royalty. In particular Ada greatly enjoyed meeting the forty-four-year-old Charles Babbage: Ada”
― James Essinger, Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age

“The aristocracy and the ordinary people were like different species. A commoner might rarely be elevated to nobility by acquiring great wealth or political influence, but the easiest way into the aristocracy – then as now – was through marriage. Most aristocrats married other ones, but occasionally a commoner might get lucky, just as sometimes happens today. Many”
― James Essinger, Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age

“Peel finally decided to interrupt the endless stream of complaints and grievances and call Babbage to order with a hard fact: ‘Mr Babbage, by your own admission you have rendered the Difference Engine useless by inventing a better machine.’ Babbage took the bait and glared at Peel. ‘But if I finish the Difference Engine it will do even more than I promised. It is true that it has been superseded by better machinery, but it is very far from being “useless.”
― James Essinger, Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age