25th January 2017, 7:49 AM
That's pretty accurate, but hey, someone's gotta do it, and ABF is a historian after all. I bet he even spelunks now and again.
"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)