[Osx-nutters] The separation of church and state.

Matt Johnston pelorus at mac.com
Tue Dec 4 14:53:01 GMT 2007


Unlikely. Considering he was a hardware guy. Now if it was called  
Lovelace's then it would be appropriate.

(still weird me out that babbages girlfriend was Lord Byron's  
daughter. Yes, that Byron. Linked to computers, vampires and  
Frankenstein. )
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On 4 Dec 2007, at 13:52, Patrick Coskren <pcoskren at mac.com> wrote:

> On Dec 4, 2007, at 8:39 AM, Charles Bennett wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 3, 2007, at 11:29 PM, Patrick Coskren wrote:
>>
>>> Criticizing evolutionary theory because
>>> Darwin was limited is like claiming computers don't work because
>>> Chuck Babbage didn't foresee Duke Nukem 3.
>>
>> I think that deserves to be in the random rotating quotes.
>>
>> I've no doubt that I'll use that quote sometime in the future.
>
> Shame there was never a Duke Nukem 3.  (Sigh... I'm an idiot.)  :-)
>
> Hey, anyone know if the old Babbage's software store was actually
> named after Charles Babbage?  'Cause that's pretty cool if it was.
>
> -Patrick
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