- [Parliament member] : Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answer come out ?
- [C. Babbage] : I’m not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage

- [Parliament member] : Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answer come out ?
- [C. Babbage] : I’m not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage