Monday, January 26, 2004

Only be sure always to call it please... 'research'!

Eclipse's Web Warren was the source of the Hildebeest quotes. My lame excuse comes in the form of the following song:
I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.
In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics:
Plagiarize!

Plagiarize,
Let no one else's work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
So don't shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize -
Only be sure always to call it please 'research'.
Complete lyrics to Tom Lehrer's Lobachevsky.

No joke, my first cat was named Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky. I was 3 and my father was a mathematician going for his PhD. Go figure.

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