29th April 2007, 9:11 PM
"There's no such thing as bad publicity" is wrong. Just because it's a "saying" doesn't mean there's a grain of truth to it.
"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)