20th June 2010, 11:04 PM
As much as I would have liked to be born further north, I didn't have as much choice in the matter. Circumstance dictates a lot of these things. It's not so easy to just move.
"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)