18th July 2008, 8:35 PM
Sometimes I get this image of someone who presses buttons by holding out a finger and running FULL SPEED into the controller.
"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)