1st March 2004, 3:57 PM
That whole thing was VERY insulting. This guy was likely a bully in school who hated nerds then and hates them now. Only now, he thinks he has some sort of justification.
"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)