Charles Babbage

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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.¹

—Charles Babbage (1791–1871) – father of the computer and early pioneer of the facepalm.

Footnotes

1. From: Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864), ch. 5 "Difference Engine No. 1" ↩

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