24th April 2007, 3:49 PM
Well maybe they were both unstable people who only managed to do this because through great fortune of events they found each other and could encourage each other's deranged whims.
"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)