16th March 2004, 1:36 PM
Huh, must have been the week I was gone or something, or it was shoved down the list so I didn't see it...
"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)