22nd March 2004, 6:39 PM
You know, I heard about this some time ago actually but I didn't post it because I thought YOU would have said it was stupid. I still think you would have said that actually :D.
"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)