29th March 2005, 1:40 AM
My bad handwriting is UNLIKE most people, in that if I go too long I tend to be unable to read something even I wrote with my very hand itself.
"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)