Quote of the Day
"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)
Nice to find the historical antecedent of "garbage in, garbage out." I'm such a linguistic Anglophile that I find the language in the second sentence breathtaking.
Nice to find the historical antecedent of "garbage in, garbage out." I'm such a linguistic Anglophile that I find the language in the second sentence breathtaking.