16th February 2006, 11:46 AM
What am I looking for? I could just barely make out the ghost of a whisper of a shadow of some letters in the background. I think I saw two O's.
"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)