Quote of the Day

I am currently working on a proposal for somebody to get a fellowship to do a postdoc for me at Oxford (without my having to pay for it). The fellowship asks us to address whether the proposal can help with the socio-economic development of third-world countries. I wrote the following in the proposal's latex file during the drafting stage:

"I don't know. Maybe the knowledge of asymptotic analysis will lead to less starvation among African children?"

I'm such a sweetheart.