You’re in conversation, every day, with Jacquard and Korsakov, Ada Lovelace, Babbage, Herman Hollerith, Erna Hoover, Alan…

“You’re in conversation, every day, with Jacquard and Korsakov, Ada Lovelace, Babbage, Herman Hollerith, Erna Hoover, Alan Turing, John Napier, Heron of Alexandria, al-Jazari, Pingala, Liang Lingzan and all the way back to whoever cut tally marks into the Ishango Bone twenty thousand years ago. These are the spirits you speak to as you enact your shamanistic workings. These are your cunning folk.”

–Warren Ellis, Cunning Plans