"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 was an English mathematician, inventor, and mechanical engineer often called a father of the computer. He designed the Difference Engine and later the Analytical Engine, foundational concepts in computing history. His work influenced later developments in programmable machines.