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

[Alain Schremmer]

Touché.
--schremmer

Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:

> But Mr. Feynman was not joking. That was the point of the joke ;-)
>
> Andrzej Kozlowski
> Chiba, Japan
> http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/
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> On 6 May 2004, at 10:56, Alain Schremmer wrote:
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>> 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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