[ 9] truth/joke 三脚猫(Sjmao) (Fri Sep 19)
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A friend sent me this:
Engineers and scientists will never make as much money as business
executives. Now a rigorous mathematical Proof that explains why this
is true:
Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power.
Postulate 2: Time is Money.
As every engineer knows,
Work
---------- = Power
Time
Since Knowledge = Power,
and Time = Money, we have
Work
----------- = Knowledge
Money
Solving for Money, we get:
Work
------------------- = Money
Knowledge
Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, Money approaches infinity
regardless of the Work done.
Conclusion: The Less you Know, the more you Make.
Note: It has been speculated that the reason why Bill Gates dropped out
of Harvard's math program was because he stumbled upon this proof as
an undergraduate, and dedicated the rest of his career to the pursuit
of ignorance.
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Of course, the corollary is that as knowledge increases, money
decreases. Those of us with many years of graduate education are
approaching this limit.
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