3rd March 2003, 12:03 AM
HOLY KARP! Sorry, just noticed something about this thread, particularly this page of this thread... I'm going to wait around for several minutes in other threads from now on too!
"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)