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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. Clive James		Saturday Mar 14, 2026
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About Charles Babbage

	Charles Babbage
	(1792-1871) English mathematician, inventor of TheDifference Engine,early calculator.

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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

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

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