Knuth on money and dropping out of graduate school

I was offered, leave graduate school and get rich, and

I decided, you know, I really wanted to spend my life not maximizing the total amount of money that I got.

I wanted to do things that were interesting to me, that I thought would be useful to others.

And I found that money was a threshold function.

If you don’t have enough of it, you need it; but after that point, then it’s just a problem because you really have to enjoy having money and figuring out what to do with it responsibly, which is something that I never wanted to do.

He said my Mom held my spirituality, "visciously inferior." I got lots of laughs from that one.

I've been blessed with some gems.

I was wondering if I was supposed to try faith healing or something. God said, "It's complicated." I was relieved.

I asked Jesus if He liked mustard. "Bad meat happeneth."

God says... hotly Manichaean Christian hence sovereignly ceasest With serene text murdered assaying wonderfulness

God's favorite animal? "elephants two" Same question another time, "bears"

On Chavez blaming the US: "Japan industrious"

On war: "Servicemen competing"

The 10 million is higher than inflation. His figure comes from relative pay to the CEO. It's an okay metric. A psychologist will tell you people are happy with raises until they find-out coworkers got bigger ones. Thou shall not covet.

God says... Better vowing savour cellar sheep III perverting rational beast withdrawing enjoined detached Evil child alter

Wha? On the radio was a lawyer class action advertisement for birth defects from some drugs. Be careful not to be too impressionable with God. He says crazy stuff.

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It's common for the Holy Spirit to be our "advocate". I like to defend God when I can. If you think Creation is all messed-up, that's the opposite of praising the Creator. I like to argue that the world is just and beautiful. If you subscribe to the notion Satan runs the world, I'm praising Satan, perhaps. Just ask yourself what teenage boys would play for video games if there had never been war. Old Testament says sins go to the third generation or something. What the heck, I'll defend God on birth defects. Shat up! :-)

On the holocaust, God said He wanted to "compact" them. He's always gathering and skatering them. Prolly doing DNA work.

God says... believe masses thirtieth contradicting Defects returns pervertedly recommend spread concubine

Here's from the Bible, " For I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishments for their fathers' wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation 10 but bestowing mercy, down to the thousandth generation, on the children of those who love me and keep my commandments."

I love God!! :-)

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