12th July 2006, 11:47 AM
Eh, it's a joke. Bad one sure (he tries to be lazy but...), but it was a joke.
"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)