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| [ 9] truth/joke 三 |
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| 脚猫(Sjmao) (Fri Sep 19) |
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| A friend sent me this:
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| Engineers and scientists will never make as much |
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| money as business |
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| executives. Now a rigorous mathematical Proof t |
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| hat explains why this |
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| is true:
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| Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power.
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| Postulate 2: Time is Money.
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| As every engineer knows,
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| Work
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| ---------- = Power
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| Time
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| Since Knowledge = Power,
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| and Time = Money, we have
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| Work
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| ----------- = Knowledge
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| Money
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| Solving for Money, we get:
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| Work
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| ------------------- = Money
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| Knowledge
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| Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, Money approa |
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| ches infinity |
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| regardless of the Work done.
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| Conclusion: The Less you Know, the more you Mak |
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| e. |
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| Note: It has been speculated that the reason why |
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| Bill Gates dropped out |
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| of Harvard's math program was because he stumbl |
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| ed upon this proof as |
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| an undergraduate, and dedicated the rest of his |
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| career to the pursuit |
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| of ignorance.
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| Of course, the corollary is that as knowledge in |
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| creases, money |
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| decreases. Those of us with many years of grad |
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| uate education are |
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| approaching this limit.
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