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Thou shalt not do as the dean pleases,
Thou shalt not write thy doctor’s thesis
On education,
Thou shalt not worship projects nor
Shalt thou or thine bow down before
Administration.

Thou shalt not answer questionnaires
Or quizzes upon World-Affairs,
Nor with compliance
Take any test. Thou shalt not sit
With statisticians nor commit
A social science.

Thou shalt not be on friendly terms
With guys in advertising firms,
Nor speak with such
As read the Bible for its prose,
Nor, above all, make love to those
Who wash too much.

Thou shalt not live within thy means
Nor on plain water and raw greens.
If thou must choose
Between the chances, choose the odd;
Read The New Yorker, trust in God;
And take short views.

— from Under Which Lyre by W. H. Auden

On January 21, 1970, Leary received a ten-year sentence for his 1968 offense, with a further ten added later while in custody, for a previous arrest in 1965, twenty years in total to be served consecutively for less than a half ounce of marijuana. When Leary arrived in prison, he was given psychological tests that were used to assign inmates to appropriate work details. Having designed some of the tests himself (including the “Leary Interpersonal Behavior Test”), Leary answered them in such a way that he seemed to be a very conforming, conventional person with a great interest in forestry and gardening.[21] As a result, Leary was assigned to work as a gardener in a lower security prison, and in September 1970 he escaped.

— Timothy Leary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Much of the mathematical analysis that was developed over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries originated in attempts to circumvent arithmetic. With our ability to do large-scale arithmetic … we can employ simple, direct methods requiring much less old-fashioned mathematical training … This situation by no mean implies that the mathematician has been dispossessed in mathematical physics. It does signify that he is urgently needed … to transform the original mathematical problems to the stage where a computer can be utilized profitably by someone with a suitable scientific training.

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-Richard Bellman, Some Vistas of Modern Mathematics

Quote found in The Finite Volume, Finite Difference, and Finite Elements Methods as Numerical Methods for Physical Field Problems