30th April 2015, 12:09 PM
Hey now, ABF's lists of junk read like an archaeologist's listing of various pottery fragments they found in some adobe hut. I find it fascinating.
"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)