12th April 2007, 10:29 PM
Yes yes. He said something racist, he got fired, let's get on with our lives. This isn't important.
"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)