10th February 2004, 12:54 AM
The period was always called the start of the revolution in my history classes. Enlightenment... that almost sounds offensive...
"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)