"On two occasions I have been asked, --
'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'
... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
-- Charles Babbage, 1864.
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