29th June 2005, 4:06 PM
And what's wrong with fixing something that "isn't broken"? Engineers do it all the time, and the constant advances in computer technology testify to the advantages of 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)