Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34243042
Quote:
“Perhaps Ada’s greatest talent was the way she combined an understanding of mathematics with a vivid and “poetic” imagination.
She was the forerunner not of today’s coders and hackers, but of the visionaries who imagine how the next generation of technology might change the world.
She was a Victorian tech visionary.”
BBC: Ada Lovelace: Letters shed light on tech visionary