4th March 2008, 4:24 PM
Sadly Bill was never the same after his last voyage to uncover the lost resting place of Atlantis ended with an ill-advised taunting of a deep sea snail.
"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)