Dumb People and Their Computers

I think the best explanation is given by the quote from the site:

"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)


* In the mid 1800's Charles Babbage designed a never-built steam driven machine that strongly resembles the modern computer.