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. —Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of…
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Quote: Linus Pauling
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. –Linus Pauling (via)