22nd October 2003, 8:28 PM
I've never ceased to wonder how someone can say that the fact that they can't get something unless they steal it somehow justifies stealing it...
"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)