Reminds me of an old joke about our uni: Physicists keep coming to the head of the university with new requests for buying expensive machines. At some point it

Reminds me of an old joke about our uni: Physicists keep coming to the head of the university with new requests for buying expensive machines. At some point it's one too many and he exclaims: "Can't you be more like the mathematicians? They need just pens, paper and a paper bin! Or the philosophers?! They need just pens and paper."