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 rightly able to apprehend the kind of confusion that could provoke such a question.

--Charles Babbage

Will Render (for?) Food

Just the other day an esteemed colleague related that exact quotation to me. :)

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Montana, hm? That's halve way after all and synchronized snow. You'll have to take leave of the shorts for some month. :) Or do you prefer Montana in TAS?

I just want it to be?

http://forum.manifold.net/forum/t49547.16

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Does anyone remember the quote that was on the old georeference forum, regarding a 1:1 scale map?

Lewis Carroll: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/gessler/topics/lewis-carroll.htm

:) Borges also used the idea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science

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And Steven Wright: I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, "Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile." People ask me where I live, and I say, "E6".

Last month I folded it.

Distributed Geospatial Solutions -- makers of AtlasAlive Geo-Hosting Framework dennis@distributedgis.com

This one comes from Ray Kurzweil's book (TSIN):

We come from goldfish, essentially, but that [doesn't] mean we turned around and killed all the goldfish. Maybe [the AIs] will feed us once a week. . . . If you had a machine with a 10 to the 18th power IQ over humans, wouldn't you want it to govern, or at least control your economy?

--Seth Shostak

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