9th January 2006, 11:41 AM
Well, first I need to confirm the story, which I don't have time to just yet, but if true, that IS the last straw.
"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)