Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Unable to apprehend the confusion of ideas you exhibit.

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine [early calculator] 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)

I think a modern interpretation of that last line lies somewhere near;
"You're a retard."

1 comment:

blogagog said...

Bet he wouldn't have bought current climate modeling software