20th March 2005, 10:06 PM
I never actually said yes. I basically just said "so you found that eh?" and basically just said everything in such a way that it couldn't be interpreted as confirming or denying it.
"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)