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Every day now I see one, a comment, a blog post, something that reminds me of the words of Charles Babbage: > I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of co
by romaniitedomum 6y ago
Every day now I see one, a comment, a blog post, something that reminds me of the words of Charles Babbage:
> I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Babbage was talking specifically about Members of Parliament asking him whether putting wrong figures into his machine would result in the correct answers, but I find the remark generally applicable to so much more.
- ashtonkem 6y agoThat quote fits perfectly for these situations where I find a suggestion so flappergastingly silly that I wonder if the author and I have experienced the same reality.