23rd February 2004, 6:55 PM
He'll still burn it in front of you. Granted it won't seem the smartest thing to have done in retrospect, but he'll do 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)