17th January 2006, 1:33 PM
But hey, plenty of heart stabbing, and he certainly seemed to love describing how "beautiful" the physical result would be. I mean, he called the knife he might kill himself with his only friend. How much more emo can you get?
"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)