Found this nice quotation in “Governance of IT: An executive guide to ISO / IEC 38500” by A. L. Holt:
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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 comprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
\n(Babbage 1864)