12th March 2003, 10:13 PM
Who seems to have been beaten with his own books, though it's less painful than reading them, am I right folks?
"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)