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With any new subject people tend first to overrate it, then by reaction to undervalue it
Drawn from what Ada Lovelace said
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- Ada Lovelace English mathematician and writer (1815 to 1852)
In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable.
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↗Notes by the Translator, Sketch of the Analytical Engine (Scientific Memoirs, 1843)fourmilab.ch
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