Babbage's WTF

hanekomu on 2007-12-11T12:35:13

Proof that that WTF-moment existed even in the 1850s:

"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)