13th December 2003, 12:22 AM
That's one way to describe him. Another way is to describe him is surprisingly brave in the face of his own broken slave mind.
"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)