25th October 2003, 12:53 PM
ABF's just saying he's poor right now, otherwise he'd get it toot sweet. I've learned to translate him.
"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)