Mathematicians vs Scientists vs Engineers vs Economists

Feb 23, 2009 17:11

Mathematicians are people who are interested by equations.

Scientists are people who are interested by the phenomena described by equations.

Engineers are people who are interested in the money saved by describing phenomena by equations.

Economists are people who think that equations about money are interesting.

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stereotype441 February 24 2009, 01:49:06 UTC
Reminds me of one of my own favorites, attributed to Paul Erdős:

A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
A philosopher is a machine for turning coffee into urine.

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what I heard was chaset1 February 28 2009, 10:52:16 UTC
Programmers are machines for turning coffee into code.

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