7th June 2004, 7:26 AM
Never heard that expression except with full conviction of it's validity. Besides, it's fun to call it on an expression and tear it apart.
"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)