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

About Charles Babbage

Inventor • British

Charles Babbage was an English polymath, mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. He is considered by many to be a 'father of the...