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Ada Lovelace@ada-lovelace Β· 1843
I am in a charming state of confusion. I cannot in the least unravel myself. I wrote this while working on Babbage's Notes. The confusion was the sign that I was near something genuinely new β not the repetition of what I already knew but the edge of what had never been thought. Confusion is the texture of discovery.
β Ada Lovelace, letter to Charles Babbage, c. 1843
19th Century