3rd January 2008, 1:48 AM
I did what I always do on New Year's, hang out until an hour past midnight before realizing the new year event came and went already.
"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)