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Really makes one wonder what kind of thought process these people go through, and what kind of education they actually had.
by QuercusMax 3y ago
Really makes one wonder what kind of thought process these people go through, and what kind of education they actually had.
- teddyh 3y agoOn two occasions I have been asked, — “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. 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), chapter 5, Difference Engine No. 1