People called it a thinking machine, but Ada knew better. The intelligence was not in the machine itself, but in the genius of its designer.

– Diane Stanley

Ada Lovelace understood where the genius of the Difference Engine came from – Charles Babbage.

Does this quote still apply today? Is the genius now in the machine?

Again, picture books, children’s books, are underrated.

Stanley, Diane. Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer. United States, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 2016.