Ada Lovelace Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: mathematician
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 10, 1815 - November 27, 1852

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It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself.

Jodie Sweetin

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I went to the Rudolf Steiner School in New York, and you're not allowed to watch TV.

Jennifer Aniston

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If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.

Matt Taibbi

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There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

John Ruskin

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I'm more optimistic than most.

Ana Navarro

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I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances.

Stephen Chbosky

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My opinion is that politicians should be humble in the face of history. And whenever history is a matter of debate, it should be left in the hands of historians and experts.

Shinzo Abe

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I'm always interested in what we're not being shown. So if you're playing ostensibly a quote-unquote 'baddie,' what are their good sides, and vice versa.

Rupert Friend

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When the SEC needs to be deterring corporate wrongdoing, the 'penalty pilot' program sends the wrong message.

Mary Schapiro

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I think, in a career, you have several breaks that lead to a big break. Small things here and there all add up to cracking away at the dam. Then the dam breaks.

Mike Colter

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I love singing just for my own benefit.

Miranda Kerr

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In Peru, there is no theatre that produces an annual opera season, and though there is one orchestra in Lima, it's always struggling to survive. We shouldn't have just one orchestra, we should have 15, we should have 50! And you should start to build this from the children.

Juan Diego Florez

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