8th July 2017, 12:37 AM
These days "working with the other side" is a cudgel to be used on your opponents, not something to actually DO. That shows weakness!
"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)