Exactly. 13 years ago, my friend R. said this in an IM chat we were having. I found it resonant enough that it's been one of my rotating .sig quotes ever since

Exactly. 13 years ago, my friend R. said this in an IM chat we were having. I found it resonant enough that it's been one of my rotating .sig quotes ever since: "An educated public is exactly what they don't want . . . more people believe in angels than believe in long division." (R., for his part, may well read HN -- he's a Scala bigwig now.)