Received: from e1.empirenet.com (root@e1.empirenet.com [205.164.88.1]) by e2.empirenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA03737 for; Tue, 21 May 1996 13:59:35 -0700 Received: from suntan.tandem.com (suntan.tandem.com [192.216.221.8]) by e1.empirenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA09867 for ; Tue, 21 May 1996 13:54:47 -0700 Received: from adm.loc3.tandem.com by suntan.tandem.com (8.6.12/suntan5.960119) id NAA07629; Tue, 21 May 1996 13:39:56 -0700 Received: from maddog.loc3.tandem.com by adm.loc3.tandem.com (4.1/6main.940209) id AA04926; Tue, 21 May 96 13:39:51 PDT Received: by maddog.loc3.tandem.com (4.1/6leaf.940209) id AA25330; Tue, 21 May 96 13:41:56 PDT From: mnd@loc3.tandem.com (davis_mark_n) Message-Id: <9605212041.AA25330@maddog.loc3.tandem.com> Subject: Professional humor To: dave_bellagio@vcd.hp.com (Dave Bellagio), hanson@tss.com (Hanson Loo), tomb@ipower.nsc.com (Tom Belligan), mauricec@informix.com (Maurice Castellon), conner_david@tandem.com (Dave Conner), crook_thomas@tandem.com (Thomas Crook), daryll@loc3.tandem.com (france_daryll), shmuck@rle.com (Bob Lee), tmcfadde@stratacom.com (Tim McFadden), Gregory_Hjelt@logitech.com (Greg Hjelt), neil@anabat.com (Neil Davis), mac@4loans.com (Mac Davis), dirckb@empirenet.com (Dirck Blaskey), ni6g@sierra.valleynet.com (Erik Dean), khazelhoff@xiox.com (Mistress Helga) Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 13:41:56 -0700 (PDT) Cc: mnd@loc3.tandem.com (davis_mark_n) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1978 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Subject: Professional views of the world --------------------------------------------------------------- The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?" The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?" The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?" The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Engineers think that equations approximate the real world. Scientists think that the real world approximates equations. Mathematicians are unable to make the connection... --------------------------------------------------------------------- A Mathematician, a Biologist and a Physicist are sitting in a street cafe watching people going in and coming out of the house on the other side of the street. First they see two people going into the house. Time passes. After a while they notice three persons coming out of the house. The Physicist: "The measurement wasn't accurate.". The Biologists conclusion: "They have reproduced". The Mathematician: "If now exactly 1 person enters the house then it will be empty again." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are shown a pasture with a herd of sheep, and told to put them inside the smallest possible amount of fence. The engineer is first. He herds the sheep into a circle and then puts the fence around them, declaring, "A circle will use the least fence for a given area, so this is the best solution." The physicist is next. She creates a circular fence of infinite radius around the sheep, and then draws the fence tight around the herd, declaring, "This will give the smallest circular fence around the herd." The mathematician is last. After giving the problem a little thought, he puts a small fence around himself and then declares, "I define myself to be on the outside!"