Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Engineers/Scientists are losers?

To become a qualified engineer or scientist is not that easy. But do all the hard works to become one are really worth it? After all based on the following theorem...

taken somewhere:

Dilbert's "Salary Theorem" states that "Engineers and scientists can never earn as much as business executives, sales people, accountants and especially liberal arts majors." This theorem can now be supported by a mathematical equation based on the following two well known postulates:

Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power.
Postulate 2: Time is Money.
As every engineer knows: Power = Work / Time.

Since: Knowledge = Power,
then Knowledge = Work / Time,
and Time = Money,
then Knowledge = Work / Money.

Solving for Money, we get: Money = Work / Knowledge.

Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, money approaches infinity, regardless of the amount of work done. so with knowledge approaches infinity, money aprroaches zero!!

haha...I think this theorem really does apply in the reality world we live in today..Give another 100 years, I bet there will be few engineers or scientists around :) if and only if they keep earning substantially lower than comedian such as jerry seinfeld or ray romano..

ooo..by the way, talking about knowledge approaches zero, money approaches infinity..I do admire some of them..The Dominator - roger federer, zinedine zidane, kobe bryant . ..well, these guys didn't help me directly or contribute anything to me but indirectly, they teach me something ..talent combines with hard work = the dominator!

roger federer is on his way to capture his 7th Grand Slam - Come on Roger!! Kobe Bryant just scored 81 points, the 2nd highest in NBA history and zidane - admire him a lot esp that exquisite goal in that champ league final


owh back to reality, got some works to do..later on next issue!

3 comments:

  1. Sorry to disagree here, but I definitely think that engineers/scientists are not losers. Partly maybe because I am engineer towards becoming a scientist :p
    Most engineers/scientists end up being businessmen. Successful business ppl. Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt of Google, Jack Welch of General Electric, to name a few. Anyway, it really depends on how ppl look at it. As for me, I am a big fan of education and knowledge (although money always gets in the way) :))

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  2. No worries Jo, one day we set up our own Google...so we can beat that theorem :))..

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  3. dude... u have an unlimited amount of free 'time' right now.. so, base on ur formula up there, you must have a lot of free 'money'.. then, i think it's a very2 nice idea to support us a trip to UK and Europe maybe...

    ahahahhaha :P

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