10th July 2005, 6:03 PM
Update: I found a site with a transcript of that interview. It has funny pictures too, but never mind that.
http://youcantmakeitup.blogspot.com/2005...lable.html
Anyone notice a certain... familiar tone?
http://youcantmakeitup.blogspot.com/2005...lable.html
Anyone notice a certain... familiar tone?
"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)