> One thing that is worth keeping in mind is that the end result can end up still being right. “ On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you

> One thing that is worth keeping in mind is that the end result can end up still being right. “ 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