Notes from “The Information” by James Gleick


February 25, 2015 Chapter 4. To Throw the Powers of Thought into Wheel-Work
The complexities she [Ada Lovelace] encountered for the first time became familiar to programmers of the next century:

How multifarious and how mutually complicated are the considerations which the working of such an engine involve. There are frequently several distinct sets of effects going on simultaneously; all in a manner independent of each other, and yet to a greater or less degree exercising a mutual influence. To adjust each to every other, and indeed even to perceive and trace them out with perfect correctness and success, entails difficulties whose nature partakes to a certain extent of those involved in every question where conditions are very numerous and inter-complicated.♦

All Excerpts From

Gleick, James. “The Information.” Pantheon, 2011-02-28T15:00:00+00:00. iBooks.
This material may be protected by copyright.

ludo ergo sum