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, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
The world of mathematics is becoming very large, the complexity of mathematics is becoming very high, and there is a danger of an accumulation of mistakes
- Vladimir Voevodsky
Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.
- Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century