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To: Christine Traut who wrote (129)	9/12/1997 12:48:00 PM
From: Punko	of 328

Off topic, but worth a few laughs. As much as I'd like to, I can't claim credit for this: >Engineers and scientists will never make as much money as business >executives. Now we have a 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 amount of 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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