Talk: Charles Babbage
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Here's a wonderful Babbage quote that you may want to work in to the article somehow:
- 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 rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
A google search will turn up zillions of hits on this, with several variants and almost no citations. My quotes.txt has a reference to http://www.hexatron.com/Bab/, which previously linked some good source material on this, but the page seems to be gone now. I posted a summary of what was once there to talk.origins, and you can see it on dejagoogle.
-- B.Bryant
Should this article be turned into one concise article? Instead of 3? --User:Dgrant
Yes, definitely the articles should be merged. AxelBoldt 22:09 Mar 2, 2003 (UTC)
Okay, whoever decides to merge these, leave a note here... and I will do likewise. To prevent duplication of work. --Dave
Arno seems to have done a very good job of merging them. AxelBoldt 17:17 Mar 7, 2003 (UTC)
- Good work User:Arno! This article finally looks nice and clean.
- Why, thank you, I'm blushing!! Arno
I just noticed there are a lot one line paragraphs in this article. Is it possible that someone could merge them? I'd rather someone else do it then me, since I don't know much about Babbage. --dave
