Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 09:07:53 PST
From: Paul Dourish <Dourish@com.xerox.europarc>
Subject: [Victor Schwartz: TFD #551: Charles Babbage Quote Without Comment]
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"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], `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."

                -- Charles Babbage
                    (19c inventor of the 1st "computing machine")

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