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.
There are far more localised versions of this in research facilities whereby budget, and available hardware is determining the focus of research far more than idea and it being right.
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[ 0.21 ms ] story [ 19.0 ms ] threadOn 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.
This is where open source hardware is key