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Comment Garbage in, garbage out (Score 1) 55

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it is credited to George Fuechsel, an early IBM programmer, who introduced it in late 1950s.[4] For a wider public it was introduced a 1957 syndicated newspaper article about US Army mathematicians and their work with early computers,[5] in which an Army Specialist named William D. Mellin explained that computers cannot think for themselves, and that "sloppily programmed" inputs inevitably lead to incorrect outputs.

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