@BrandonLBradfor Ada Lovelace- I love her, but... "That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show." "I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature."
@BrandonLBradfor Otoh credit to her for seeing a future in a Jacquard loom "The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature."