Talk:Garbage In, Garbage Out

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1 Quotations
2 More on Quotations
3 Requested move
- 3.1 Survey
- 3.2 Discussion

I notice that Garbage In, Garbage Out redirects to this page. Shouldn't that be the other way around? - Anon —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.194.13.104 (talk • contribs) .

[edit] Quotations

The heading of the Computer Stupidities web page has this quotation from Charles Babbage:

I have frequently been asked by Members of Parliament, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine the wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I have not been able to fully comprehend the level of stupidity needed to ask this question.

Should this be mentioned here? It sounds like a good analogy to GIGO.

[edit] More on Quotations

The quote is alleged to come from Passages from the Life of a Philosopher. According to page 67 of the Google books scan of that quote, the word "comprehend" does not appear. The full quote is, according to the Google books scan: On two occasions I have been asked,--Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out? In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.211.203.201 (talk) 18:14, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the debate was move. —Nightst a llion (?) ^{Seen this already?} 18:09, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

GIGO → Garbage In, Garbage Out … Rationale: better name but obstructed move

[edit] Survey

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Support. David Kernow 08:16, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion

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I have reduced the page history of Garbage In, Garbage Out to a single redirect --Henrygb 21:52, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.