12th November 2005, 10:28 AM
Or maybe it's just not that funny. I certainly don't get it. You say it's intelligent. Okay, what's the meaning?
"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)