GIGO

On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong fi gures, 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 (1791-1871)

(Found here)

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