1st March 2004, 7:30 PM
I mean, "got tired"? Please tell me that was one of his off days! He's supposed to be this great thinker, but all the ideas I hear about attributed to him are silly at best. I mean "things fall because they long to be united with mother earth"? Okay, there's a little something to that, kinda... but that's still WAY off. Well, at any rate I'm still waiting for quantum theory's version of gravity. Oh yeah...
"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)