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  • 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.

    Ideas   Two   Confusion  
    Passages from the Life of a Philosopher ch. 5 (1864) See Countess of Lovelace 1; Modern Proverbs 35
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Charles Babbage

  • Born: December 26, 1791
  • Died: October 18, 1871
  • Occupation: Mathematician