22nd March 2006, 9:35 PM
What about him? He's dead. Sure, according to records he died at a rather odd time, apparently a lot of celestial events happened that week, but oh well. His New Christian Empire didn't exactly pan out. Well, I suppose it's done pretty well in the long run actually.
"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)