(OT) MLP: Babbage quote

Byron Sonne blsonne-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sun Oct 26 03:17:37 UTC 2003


Saw this as a sig while reading Bugtraq today. Rather amusing to see 
this kind of problem transcending the centuries:

"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)

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