3rd February 2006, 6:41 PM
What is accounting? I just get this impression it's a bunch of evil trolls in some back room saying "this number isn't as big as this number, destroy this many lives to get it back in balance".
"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)