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Re: FWIW: interesting quote from Ted Kaczynski
Posted:
Jan 7, 2013 6:58 PM
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david petry <david_lawrence_petry@yahoo.com> writes:
> "Meanwhile, I was doing well in mathematics. It was fun to solve
> mathematical problems, but in a deeper sense mathematics was boring
> and empty because for me it had no purpose. If I had worked on applied
> mathematics I would have contributed to the development of the
> technological society that I hated, so I worked only on pure
> mathematics. But pure mathematics was only a game. I did not
> understand then, and I still do not understand, why mathematicians are
> content to fritter away their whole lives in a mere game. I myself was
> completely dissatisfied with such a life."
>
> Ted Kaczynski, from a letter to a Turkish anarchist named Kara
Well, to each his own, right? Up to the point, of course, that they
start mailing bombs to others.
--
"Do you know why I'm tall?" "Why?"
"Because I eat apples." "Do you know why I'm short?"
"Why?" "Because I'm a kid."
--Quincy P. Hughes (age almost 4) bests his father.
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