16th March 2018, 6:06 AM
In his mind, and the minds of people like him, acting with dignity is a comforting lie the polite tell each other.
"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)