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Flint · 05-22-2007, 10:25 PM

I'm sure I keep submitting this link, but I urge you to visit Computer Stupidities, and browse through the archive of user-submitted "stories and anecdotes about clueless computer users" ... at the top of the page is this quote:

"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)

05-22-2007, 10:25 PM	#12
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	I'm sure I keep submitting this link, but I urge you to visit Computer Stupidities, and browse through the archive of user-submitted "stories and anecdotes about clueless computer users" ... at the top of the page is this quote: "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) __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**