14th November 2005, 5:53 PM
Free time to what? Fall asleep at the wheel? I can't imagine actually doing something like that. Exactly what was this person a prof. of?
"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)