Ada Lovelace

What I thought was so interesting is that she understood very intuitively, and almost seems like almost instantly, the potential for computers to perform artistic tasks. And she was really inspired by combining science and art.

Peter Bauman, Marius Watz on Pre-Modern Generative Art

I remember being introduced to the story of Ada Lovelace as a kind of quaint, obscure fact, like, did you know? But then later I was kind of dismayed when I realized, wait, the whole history of early programming and computers is just full of these women who got very little credit at the time.

Marius Watz, Marius Watz on Pre-Modern Generative Art