22nd April 2022, 7:30 AM
This has been a pet peeve of mine for a while on Youtube, and now I have a name for it... one that goes WAY back.
"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)