15th September 2003, 11:02 PM
I'm fairly sure he's accepted it now and is in a jocular mood, so allow me to say... my spoon is too big...
"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)