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"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], `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

Date: 2004-12-22 02:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fearghaill.livejournal.com
I'm saving this. So much said, and so far ahead of its time.

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