13th March 2003, 8:10 PM
Shakespear wasn't so easy to understand either. In fear of being seen as a philistine, most people say he was "brilliant" instead of realizing that most of his plays were just recycled old stories or very sitcom-esqu plots (A midsummer night's whatever...).
"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)