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Ada lovelace letters
De Morgan was Ada’s teacher. He was a friend of Babbage and a closer friend to Lady Byron.
“If I had made my own head, I would have proportioned it’s wishes and ambition a little more to its capacity.” “When I sit down to study, I generally feel as if I could never be tired; as if I could go on and on forever. I say to myself constantly, now today I will go through so and so” and it is very disappointing to find oneself after an hour or so quite wearied and having accomplished perhaps one 20ths of one’s intentions, perhaps not even that. When I compared the very little that I do, with very much - the infinite I may say - that there is to be done. I can only hope that hereafter in some future state, we shall be cleverer than we are now.”
Thought
I love Ada’s eagerness, embracing of mistakes and ability to apply imagination to her understanding. By embracing her difference she was able to approach from a different angle.
When you examine the clothes you wear right now, they have a memory of an action - the smallest units of repetition as knots in the fabric. It is from these concepts, driven to extreme that we find ourselves with computers, phones, the interconnectivity provided by the web that allows this to be shared.
“If you are a skater, pray bring skates to Ockham; that being the fashionable occupation here now, & one I have take much to.”