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Trisha
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posted 09 September 2001 02:17 PM      Profile for Trisha     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Dilbert"s "Salary Theorem" states that "Engineers and scientist can never earn as much as business executives and sales people."

This theorem can now be suppported by a mathematical equation based on the following two postulates:

As every engineer knows: Power=Work/Time

Since:

Knowledge=Power
Time=Money
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.

Conclusion:

The less you know, the more you make.

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'lance
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posted 09 September 2001 03:11 PM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
A succinct demonstration of this came in one of the animated Dilbert episodes.

The marketing guys ask "What's to stop us [completing some impossible task to some absurd deadline]?

Dilbert answers "Common sense? The laws of physics? Sanity?"

The marketing guys look blank, as if he hadn't spoken, and say "Right, then, let's get under way."

Engineers and scientists feel constrained by these things. Marketing guys just use the force, and trust their feelings.


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DrConway
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posted 09 September 2001 03:19 PM      Profile for DrConway     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
*busts up laughing*
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