On Monday 19 May 2014 09:24:18 Chris Angelico did opine And Gene did reply: > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Monday, May 19, 2014 6:39:49 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > >> > The provers call the calculators as "Just applied not pure > >> > mathematicians" The calculators say of the provers: "They are not > >> > mathematicians but logicians" (or philosophers)" [Chris had a > >> > funny quote on this a few weeks ago] > >> > >> Which Chris? I don't remember either reading or writing such a > >> quote, and would like to. There are a good few Chrises on this list > >> :) > > > > You!! > > Something about mathematicians philosophers and waste-paper baskets > > Oh! Yes, I remember now. Old joke I found someplace. Physicists need > heaps of sensitive (and expensive) equipment... mathematicians need > only pencils, paper, and waste-paper baskets. And philosophers don't > even need waste-paper baskets. > > ChrisA
I gotta grin and like it, that does boil it down to the pure essence. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list