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A friend explaining to another friend why he was leaving grad school to start a startup: "Hey, and it could actually work, so it beats studying string theory!"

by dfranke 17y ago

A friend explaining to another friend why he was leaving grad school to start a startup: "Hey, and it could actually work, so it beats studying string theory!" "Yeah, but it could also fail. So that's a disadvantage versus string theory."

rbanffy 17y ago
"The best thing you can say about string theory is that it's internally consistent"