[OS X TeX] TeX is not for the faint of heart

[Andrzej Kozlowski]

But Mr. Feynman was not joking. That was the point of the joke ;-)

Andrzej Kozlowski
Chiba, Japan
http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/



On 6 May 2004, at 10:56, Alain Schremmer wrote:

> They require unavailable?
> Surely Mr Gerben You Must Be Joking.  (Since I don't know what your 
> background is, let me say that it was the title of a book by a 
> physicist a long time ago. I couldn't resist.)
>
> As for me,
> I do /not/ like to skim and I /do/ read stuff that is very hard for me 
> to read.
> But:
>
>    (1) I do it because I want to (But I don't like to spend time trying
>    to read what I don't have a chance to understand at this time.)
>
> and
>
>    (2) I don't like to have to do it when it is only to do something
>    else that will have to wait. I don't think anybody would like the
>    owner manual of their car to be unreadable (to /them/) but necessary
>    for them to drive to the movies.
>
> Regards
> --schremmer
>
>
> Gerben Wierda wrote:
>
>> On May 6, 2004, at 01:59, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>>
>>> (3) I do not understand what the argument below is about. Why can't 
>>> the information be available to those who want it and "ignorable" 
>>> for those who want to?
>>
>>
>> I agree. But you learn something every day. There are people who do 
>> not like 'ignorable'. They require unavailable, because 'available + 
>> not understandable' frustrates them.
>>
>> The funny thing is that there is a collection of psyche's out there 
>> who are really incompatible and they all want that one program to do 
>> what their psyche likes. You want to skim and not read. Someone else 
>> wants to know what is going on. Someone else does not want to be 
>> confronted with anything he does not understand.
>>
>> G
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