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Numbers can be tricky. On the day of my 110th birthday, I'll be one day younger than John Tukey was on his.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3104/
This reminds me of Charles Babbage's response to being asked if his computer would give the right answer if the wrong numbers were entered:
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
I've been tempted to drop this line in meetings more than once.
Huh, that kind of gets the juices going, and I'm wondering how much we've been trying to make our problems fit the technologies we've built, rather than the other way around.
traffic/DUIs (need cars)
poverty/homelessness (need more)
recidivism (need slaves)
Sometime before now.
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