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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 to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." 


-- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

Date: 2006-07-20 10:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xanna.livejournal.com
That is very cool. :o)

Date: 2006-07-20 05:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eponymousarchon.livejournal.com
Problem is, I'm far from convinced that parliament is any more clued-up now - and the world is getting *more* technological, not less.

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