> "Pray, Mr. Babbage ..." (for those who do not know the quote) “On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figu

> "Pray, Mr. Babbage ..." (for those who do not know the quote) “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.” — Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864)