7th March 2003, 6:12 PM
Woah, perhaps you misunderstood me. I was actually just venting, not responding to that statement (which I JUST read). I don't think you actually view the two as the same, but I thought I might as well make arguments against that point anyway.
"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)