Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Food for Thought

"Academic science is a pie-eating contest, in which the prize is............more pie."


(This is not an AA original, but I don't know where it comes from. It rings true though, and if anyone can point me toward the original, I'd like to credit properly.)

5 comments:

Andrew said...

I first read this joke as applied to the competition to become partner at big law firms:

http://volokh.com/posts/1105939706.shtml

Dr. Cynicism said...

Sad but true. Funny too; but true.

Anthea said...

I've heard a similar phrase but I don't know who made the first statement. Unfortunately, its not only sad, funny but true.

decorative concrete said...

Make sense and funny.

Takekawa said...

That's smart phrase and hear really true. No doubt that's funny.