6th June 2008, 9:18 PM
Well, it wouldn't really prove him right, but a lone nut taking him out would sure make a martyr out of him. Also, let's not forget that murder is... um... wrong!
"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)