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    2 days ago

    “On two occasions I have been asked, – “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, 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”

    Its been over a hundred years since this quote and people still think computers are magic.