http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage On two occasions [Charles Babbage] had been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babba

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage On two occasions [Charles Babbage] had been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" To which he replied: "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." (I usually remember it as "I cannot rightly comprehend the confusion that would engender such a question"; either gets the point across.)