12th January 2012, 9:15 PM
Sometimes I think the biggest problem with immortality is that death is still the best way to clear out outdated ideas. Other times I think maybe it's a good thing I'm not in control of any sort of armed forces.
"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)