5th August 2005, 6:29 PM
Yes indeed. Had large corporations existed at the time, I'm sure they would have said something to that effect.
"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)