Series VIII · Card 21 of 21 · THE SCRIPTORIUM
In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, … to undervalue the true state of the case.
ADA LOVELACE · NOTE G · 1843
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Source
Note G to her translation of L. F. Menabrea, “Sketch of the Analytical Engine”, Taylor’s Scientific Memoirs, vol. 3, London 1843 (abridged)
About the author
English mathematician (1815–1852). In 1843 she wrote the first published computer program, for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, and saw that machines could process more than numbers.
The question on the back
With new things, do you tend to underrate or overrate?