23rd June 2005, 1:46 PM
Darunia, I wasn't resorting to sarcasm, I was correcting your misunderstanding of what I said. I MEANT all that.
"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)