View Single Post
  #109 (permalink)  
Old 30-November-2007, 06:13 PM
Donnie B.'s Avatar
Donnie B. Donnie B. is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Massachusetts, USA
Posts: 5,281
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by HypothesisTesting View Post
Whenever I go into my university's academic area stacks these days, I feel like I'm in a ghost town. I get the concept of "ivory tower", but this is ridiculous. I'm not certain any of these great books have ever been touched, much less read, in decades. I'm probably just in an academic wasteland, but it makes one ponder the state of learning.
Hey, dooood... if it's not on the Internet, it doesn't exist!
__________________
Bring back Firefly!

"It is quite clear that Occam's razor does not sharpen in your pyramid." (Nicolas)

"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)
Reply With Quote