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I keep telling people that a hundred buses will let you take a hundred times more people, but nobody will get to their destination a hundred times faster. Inev
by jiggawatts 3y ago
I keep telling people that a hundred buses will let you take a hundred times more people, but nobody will get to their destination a hundred times faster.
Inevitably this comment is followed by quiet blinking as they digest this and then this question: “Are you saying we need to scale up one hundred times bigger?”
Sigh…
- QuercusMax 3y agoReally makes one wonder what kind of thought process these people go through, and what kind of education they actually had.
- teddyh 3y agoOn two occasions I have been asked, — “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. — Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864), chapter 5, Difference Engine No. 1