20th September 2005, 3:34 PM
What I mean is, NO ONE is saying innovation is bad, or asking "Why did you innovate?" That's a straw man sort of thing. People are just asking "why did you innovate THAT?". I know why, you know why, we love it. But, that's the question.
"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)