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4 Sep 2024 05:20:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Babbage Flaw  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 11 May 2010 10:48:19
Message: <4be96e33@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> "One of Babbage’s most serious flaws was his inability to stop
> tinkering. No sooner would he send a drawing to the machine shop than he
> would find a better way to perform the task and would order work stopped
> until he had finished pursuing the new line. By and large this flaw kept
> Babbage from ever finishing anything."
> 
> OK, so how many of you are thinking "hmm, that sounds like me" right
> now? ;-)

_o/ *raises hand*


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