Ophiolite
Valued Senior Member
No. If I don't like it I shall change it.
Why do I have to live within your socially established norms?
- Thread starter Mr. Hamtastic
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It's not yours to change. It's the majority's.
Ophiolite
Valued Senior Member
Humbug. It gives us all something to talk about when we are in the pub. And what's this hang up with stability? Societies change, evolve, develop, improve. And they improve because some members of the society act differently, do crazy things that later may become the norm.
The communists are a great attraction since they are usually intellectuals with tweed jackets or a welding rod. The capitalists leave great tips, or failing that are easy targets for robbery. The fascists are amusing. And the anarchists might be a problem, but they never seem to be able to organise themselves.
Vive la difference.
Ophiolite
Valued Senior Member
F*** the majority. If they don't want the change they don't have to. But if my change is a good one, a useful one, a productive one, an amusing one, then it will catch on.
In a properly successful society we are all a majority of one.
"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that."
~G.H. Hardy
any intelligent person will like it. its the truth 
favorite G.H. Hardy quotes:
"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean."
"The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colors or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics."
"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that."
"Young Men should prove theorems, old men should write books. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds."
quotes from G.H. Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology is a 1940 essay by British mathematician G.H. Hardy. It concerns the aesthetics of mathematics with some personal content, and gives the layman an insight into the mind of a working mathematician.
favorite G.H. Hardy quotes:
"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean."
"The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colors or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics."
"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that."
"Young Men should prove theorems, old men should write books. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds."
quotes from G.H. Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology is a 1940 essay by British mathematician G.H. Hardy. It concerns the aesthetics of mathematics with some personal content, and gives the layman an insight into the mind of a working mathematician.