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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods, Software)
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Subject: Re: Coffee is the Source of All Higher Intelligence
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Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 12:21:21 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 21 12:21:21 1985
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> In the course of reading Hadamard's "The Psychology of Invention in the
> Mathematical Field", I have come across evidence supporting a fact
> which we coffee achievers have long appreciated:

Quoting Paul Erdos (sorry, I have only a USASCII terminal), quoting a no-doubt
ancient saw:

	"Mathematicians are machines for turning coffee into theorems."

> remember where you'd be without coffee.  And the next
> time you see some poor, confused, under-achieving tea drinker stumble
> by, say solemnly to yourself "There but for the grace of coffee go I."
> Dan Winkler, Brown University Coffee Czar.
> 
			AMEN!

"Or is it all just a lot of hooey?" - Opus

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